A Boy And Watchmaker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE F GGHHBBIIJJKL M NOPQRRIISS| This watch my father did on me bestow | A |
| A golden one it is but 'twill not go | A |
| Unless it be at an uncertainty | B |
| But as good none as one to tell a lie | C |
| When 'tis high day my hand will stand at nine | D |
| I think there's no man's watch so bad as mine | D |
| Sometimes 'tis sullen 'twill not go at all | E |
| And yet 'twas never broke nor had a fall | E |
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| Watchmaker | F |
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| Your watch though it be good through want of skill | G |
| May fail to do according to your will | G |
| Suppose the balance wheels and springs be good | H |
| And all things else unless you understood | H |
| To manage it as watches ought to be | B |
| Your watch will still be at uncertainty | B |
| Come tell me do you keep it from the dust | I |
| Yea wind it also duly up you must | I |
| Take heed too that you do not strain the spring | J |
| You must be circumspect in every thing | J |
| Or else your watch were it as good again | K |
| Would not with time and tide you entertain | L |
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| Comparison | M |
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| This boy an emblem is of a convert | N |
| His watch of the work of grace within his heart | O |
| The watchmaker is Jesus Christ our Lord | P |
| His counsel the directions of his Word | Q |
| Then convert if thy heart be out of frame | R |
| Of this watchmaker learn to mend the same | R |
| Do not lay ope' thy heart to worldly dust | I |
| Nor let thy graces over grow with rust | I |
| Be oft' renewed in the' spirit of thy mind | S |
| Or else uncertain thou thy watch wilt find | S |
John Bunyan
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