Corruption Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIK ILILMNMNOPOLQRSTUTU| Sure it was so Man in those early days | A |
| Was not all stone and earth | B |
| He shined a little and by those weak rays | A |
| Had some glimpse of his birth | B |
| He saw Heaven o'er his head and knew from whence | C |
| He came condemned hither | D |
| And as first love draws strongest so from hence | C |
| His mind sure progressed thither | D |
| Things here were strange unto him sweat and till | E |
| All was a thorn or weed | F |
| Nor did those last but like himself died still | E |
| As soon as they did seed | F |
| They seemed to quarrel with him for that act | G |
| That felled him foiled them all | H |
| He drew the curse upon the world and cracked | G |
| The whole frame with his fall | H |
| This made him long for home as loth to stay | I |
| With murmurers and foes | J |
| He sighed for Eden and would often say | I |
| 'Ah what bright days were those ' | K |
| Nor was Heaven cold unto him for each day | I |
| The valley or the mountain | L |
| Afforded visits and still paradise lay | I |
| In some green shade or fountain | L |
| Angels lay lieger here each bush and cell | M |
| Each oak and highway knew them | N |
| Walk but the fields or sit down at some well | M |
| And he was sure to view them | N |
| Almighty Love where art Thou now Mad man | O |
| Sits down and freezeth on | P |
| HE raves and swears to stir nor fire nor fan | O |
| But bids the thread be spun | L |
| I see Thy curtains are close drawn Thy bow | Q |
| Sin triumphs still and man is sunk below | R |
| The center and his shroud | S |
| All's in deep sleep and night thick darkness lies | T |
| And hatcheth o'er Thy people | U |
| But hark what trumpet's that what angel cries | T |
| 'Arise thrust in Thy sickle' | U |
Henry Vaughan
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