The Call Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEEFGG HIHIJDJDKL MNMNHHOOPP| A | |
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| COME my heart come my head | B |
| In sighs and tears | C |
| 'Tis now since you have lain thus dead | B |
| Some twenty years | D |
| Awake awake | E |
| Some pity take | E |
| Upon yourselves | F |
| Who never wake to groan nor weep | G |
| Shall be sentenc'd for their sleep | G |
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| Do but see your sad estate | H |
| How many sands | I |
| Have left us while we careless sate | H |
| With folded hands | I |
| What stock of nights | J |
| Of days and years | D |
| In silent flights | J |
| Stole by our ears | D |
| How ill have we ourselves bestow'd | K |
| Whose suns are all set in a cloud | L |
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| Yet come and let's peruse them all | M |
| And as we pass | N |
| What sins on every minute fall | M |
| Score on the glass | N |
| Then weigh and rate | H |
| Their heavy state | H |
| Until | O |
| The glass with tears you fill | O |
| That done we shall be safe and good | P |
| Those beasts were clean that chew'd the cud | P |
Henry Vaughan
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