The Thorn In The Flesh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDCCEFEFGGAAAAAAA HIIHHAAJJAA| Within my heart a worm had long been hid | A |
| I knew it not when I went down and chid | A |
| Because some servants of my inner house | B |
| Had not I found of late been doing well | C |
| But then I spied the horror hideous | D |
| Dwelling defiant in the inmost cell | C |
| No not the inmost for there God did dwell | C |
| But the small monster softly burrowing | E |
| Near by God's chamber had made itself a den | F |
| And lay in it and grew the noisome thing | E |
| Aghast I prayed 'twas time I did pray then | F |
| But as I prayed it seemed the loathsome shape | G |
| Grew livelier and did so gnaw and scrape | G |
| That I grew faint Whereon to me he said | A |
| Some one that is who held my swimming head | A |
| Lo I am with thee let him do his worst | A |
| The creature is but not his work accurst | A |
| Thou hating him he is as a thing dead | A |
| Then I lay still nor thought only endured | A |
| At last I said Lo now I am inured | A |
| A burgess of Pain's town The pain grew worse | H |
| Then I cried out as if my heart would break | I |
| But he whom in the fretting sickening ache | I |
| I had forgotten spoke The law of the universe | H |
| Is this he said Weakness shall be the nurse | H |
| Of strength The help I had will serve thee too | A |
| So I took courage and did bear anew | A |
| At last through bones and flesh and shrinking skin | J |
| Lo the thing ate his way and light came in | J |
| And the thing died I knew then what it meant | A |
| And turning saw the Lord on whom I leant | A |
George Macdonald
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