Vanity (i) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCAD EFEFGEH EEEEAEA EIEJEEE| The fleet astronomer can bore | A |
| And thread the spheres with his quick piercing mind | B |
| He views theirs stations walks from door to door | A |
| Surveys as if he had designed | B |
| To make a purchase there he sees their dances | C |
| And knoweth long before | A |
| Both their full eyed aspects and secret glances | D |
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| The nimble diver with his side | E |
| Cuts through the working waves that he may fetch | F |
| His dearly earned pearl which God did hide | E |
| On purpose from the ventrous wretch | F |
| That he might save his life and also hers | G |
| Who with excessive pride | E |
| Her own destruction and his danger wears | H |
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| The subtle chymick can devest | E |
| And strip the creature naked till he find | E |
| The callow principles within their nest | E |
| There he imparts to them his mind | E |
| Admitted to their bed chamber before | A |
| They appear trim and drest | E |
| To ordinary suitors at the door | A |
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| What hath not man sought out and found | E |
| But his dear God who yet his glorious law | I |
| Embosoms in us mellowing the ground | E |
| With showers and frosts with love and awe | J |
| So that we need not say Where's this command | E |
| Poor man thou searchest round | E |
| To find out death but missest life at hand | E |
George Herbert
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