The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCE FGFFG HFHHF| Love built a stately house where Fortune came | A |
| And spinning fancies she was heard to say | B |
| That her fine cobwebs did support the frame | A |
| Whereas they were supported by the same | A |
| But Wisdom quickly swept them all away | B |
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| The Pleasure came who liking not the fashion | C |
| Began to make balconies terraces | D |
| Till she had weakened all by alteration | C |
| But reverend laws and many a proclomation | C |
| Reform eacute d all at length with menaces | E |
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| Then entered Sin and with that sycamore | F |
| Whose leaves first sheltered man from drought and dew | G |
| Working and winding slily evermore | F |
| The inward walls and summers cleft and tore | F |
| But Grace shored these and cut that as it grew | G |
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| Then Sin combined with death in a firm band | H |
| To raze the building to the very floor | F |
| Which they effected none could them withstand | H |
| But Love and Grace took Glory by the hand | H |
| And built a braver palace than before | F |
George Herbert
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