Whitsunday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIJI KLML NONO PIPI| Listen sweet Dove unto my song | A |
| And spread thy golden wings in me | B |
| Hatching my tender heart so long | A |
| Till it get wing and fly away with thee | B |
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| Where is that fire which once descended | C |
| On thy Apostles thou didst then | D |
| Keep open house richly attended | C |
| Feasting all comers by twelve chosen men | D |
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| Such glorious gifts thou didst bestow | E |
| That th'earth did like a heav'n appear | F |
| The stars were coming down to know | E |
| If they might mend their wages and serve here | G |
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| The sun which once did shine alone | H |
| Hung down his head and wisht for night | I |
| When he beheld twelve suns for one | J |
| Going about the world and giving light | I |
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| But since those pipes of gold which brought | K |
| That cordial water to our ground | L |
| Were cut and martyr'd by the fault | M |
| Of those who did themselves through their side wound | L |
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| Thou shutt'st the door and keep'st within | N |
| Scarce a good joy creeps through the chink | O |
| And if the braves of conqu'ring sin | N |
| Did not excite thee we should wholly sink | O |
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| Lord though we change thou art the same | P |
| The same sweet God of love and light | I |
| Restore this day for thy great name | P |
| Unto his ancient and miraculous right | I |
George Herbert
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