Come, Come ! What Do I Here? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGHI JKLKEEMNNM OPOPEEQRRQ| COME come what do I here | A |
| Since he is gone | B |
| Each day is grown a dozen year | C |
| And each hour one | D |
| Come come | E |
| Cut off the sum | E |
| By these soil'd tears | F |
| Which only Thou | G |
| Know'st to be true | H |
| Days are my fears | I |
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| There's not a wind can stir | J |
| Or beam pass by | K |
| But straight I think though far | L |
| Thy hand is nigh | K |
| Come come | E |
| Strike these lips dumb | E |
| This restless breath | M |
| That soils Thy name | N |
| Will ne'er be tame | N |
| Until in death | M |
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| Perhaps some think a tomb | O |
| No house of store | P |
| But a dark and seal'd up womb | O |
| Which ne'er breeds more | P |
| Come come | E |
| Such thoughts benumb | E |
| But I would be | Q |
| With him I weep | R |
| Abed and sleep | R |
| To wake in Thee | Q |
Henry Vaughan
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