Cock-crowing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DCDCEE FGFGHH IJIJKK LMLMGG NCNCLL OKOKPP QLQLKK| Father of lights what sunny seed | A |
| What glance of day hast Thou confined | B |
| Into this bird To all the breed | A |
| This busy ray Thou hast assigned | B |
| Their magnetism works all night | C |
| And dreams of paradise and light | C |
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| Their eyes watch for the morning hue | D |
| Their little grain expelling night | C |
| So shines and sings as if it knew | D |
| The path unto the house of light | C |
| It seems their candle howe'er done | E |
| Was tinned and lighted at the sun | E |
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| If such a tincture such a touch | F |
| So firm a longing can empower | G |
| Shall Thy own image think it much | F |
| To watch for Thy appearing hour | G |
| If a mere blast so fill the sail | H |
| Shall not the breath of God prevail | H |
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| O Thou immortal Light and Heat | I |
| Whose hand so shines through all this frame | J |
| That by the beauty of the seat | I |
| We plainly see who made the same | J |
| Seeing Thy seed abides in me | K |
| Dwell Thou in it and I in Thee | K |
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| To sleep without Thee is to die | L |
| Yea 'tis a death partakes of hell | M |
| For where Thou dost not close the eye | L |
| It never opens I can tell | M |
| In such a dark Egyptian border | G |
| The shades of death dwell and disorder | G |
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| If joys and hopes and earnest throes | N |
| And hearts whose pulse beats still for light | C |
| Are given to birds who but Thee knows | N |
| A love sick soul's exalted flight | C |
| Can souls be tracked by any eye | L |
| But His who gave them wings to fly | L |
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| Only this veil which Thou hast broke | O |
| And must be broken yet in me | K |
| This veil I say is all the cloak | O |
| And cloud which shadows Thee from me | K |
| This veil Thy full eyed love denies | P |
| And only gleams and fractions spies | P |
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| O take it off make no delay | Q |
| But brush me with Thy light that I | L |
| May shine unto a perfect day | Q |
| And warm me at Thy glorious eye | L |
| O take it off or till it flee | K |
| Though with no lily stay with me | K |
Henry Vaughan
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