The Labyrinth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBBBBCABBBBBBBBBB DEFGBBBBHIJJKIBBIIKL BB| Life is a crooked Labyrinth and we | A |
| Are daily lost in that Obliquity | B |
| 'Tis a perplexed circle in whose round | B |
| Nothing but sorrows and new sins abound | B |
| How is the faint impression of each good | B |
| Drown'd in the vicious Channel of our blood | B |
| Whose Ebbes and tides by their vicissitude | B |
| Both our great Maker and our selves delude | B |
| O wherefore is the most discerning eye | C |
| Unapt to make its own discovery | A |
| Why is the clearest and best judging mind | B |
| In her own ills prevention dark and blind | B |
| Dull to advise to act precipitate | B |
| We scarce think what to do but when too late | B |
| Or if we think that fluid thought like seed | B |
| Rots there to propagate some fouler deed | B |
| Still we repent and sin sin and repent | B |
| We thaw and freeze we harden and relent | B |
| Those fires which cool'd to day the morrows heat | B |
| Rekindles Thus frail nature does repeat | B |
| What she unlearnt and still by learning on | D |
| Perfects her lesson of confusion | E |
| Sick soul what cure shall I for thee devise | F |
| Whose leprous state corrupts all remedies | G |
| What medicine or what cordial can be got | B |
| For thee who poyson'st thy best antidot | B |
| Repentance is thy bane since thou by it | B |
| Onely reviv'st the fault thou didst commit | B |
| Nor griev'st thou for the past but art in pain | H |
| For fear thou mayst not act it o're again | I |
| So that thy tears like water spilt on lime | J |
| Serve not to quench but to advance the crime | J |
| My blessed Saviour unto thee I flie | K |
| For help against this homebred tyrannie | I |
| Thou canst true sorrows in my soul imprint | B |
| And draw contrition from a breast of flint | B |
| Thou canst reverse this labyrinth of sin | I |
| My wild affects and actions wander in | I |
| O guide my faith and by thy graces clew | K |
| Teach me to hunt that kingdom at the view | L |
| Where true joyes reign which like their day shall last | B |
| Those never clouded nor that overcast | B |
Henry King
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