Lament Xviii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGCC HHII JJKK LLFF| We are thy thankless children gracious Lord | A |
| The good thou dost afford | A |
| Lightly do we employ | B |
| All careless of the one who giveth joy | B |
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| We heed not him from whom delights do flow | C |
| Until they fade and go | C |
| We take no thought to render | D |
| That gratitude we owe the bounteous sender | D |
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| Yet keep us in thy care Let not our pride | E |
| Cause thee dear God to hide | E |
| The glory of thy beauty | F |
| Chasten us till we shall recall our duty | F |
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| Yet punish us as with a father's hand | G |
| We mites cannot withstand | G |
| Thine anger we are snow | C |
| Thy wrath the sun that melts us in its glow | C |
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| Make us not perish thus eternal God | H |
| From thy too heavy rod | H |
| Recall that thy disdain | I |
| Alone doth give thy children bitter pain | I |
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| Yet I do know thy mercy doth abound | J |
| While yet the spheres turn round | J |
| And thou wilt never cast | K |
| Without the man who humbles him at last | K |
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| Though great and many my transgressions are | L |
| Thy goodness greater far | L |
| Than mine iniquity | F |
| Lord manifest thy mercy unto me | F |
Jan Kochanowski
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