An Introduction To The Ensuing Discourse. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFH IJIK LDLD MNMO PQPR STSU VEVE WXWX YZYY GA2GD B2YB2Y C2ED2E| These lines I at this time present | A |
| To all that will them heed | B |
| Wherein I show to what intent | C |
| God saith Convert with speed | B |
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| For these four things come on apace | D |
| Which we should know full well | E |
| Both death and judgment and in place | D |
| Next to them heaven and hell | E |
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| For doubtless man was never born | F |
| For this life and no more | G |
| No in the resurrection morn | F |
| They must have weal or woe | H |
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| Can any think that God should take | I |
| That pains to form a man | J |
| So like himself only to make | I |
| Him here a moment stand | K |
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| Or that he should make such ado | L |
| By justice and by grace | D |
| By prophets and apostles too | L |
| That men might see his face | D |
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| Or that the promise he hath made | M |
| Also the threatenings great | N |
| Should in a moment end and fade | M |
| O no this is a cheat | O |
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| Besides who is so mad or worse | P |
| To think that Christ should come | Q |
| From glory to be made a curse | P |
| And that in sinners' room | R |
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| If nothing should by us be had | S |
| When we are gone from hence | T |
| But vanities while here O mad | S |
| And foolish confidence | U |
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| Again shall God who is the truth | V |
| Say there is heaven and hell | E |
| And shall men play that trick of youth | V |
| To say But who can tell | E |
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| Shall he that keeps his promise sure | W |
| In things both low and small | X |
| Yet break it like a man impure | W |
| In matters great'st of all | X |
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| O let all tremble at that thought | Y |
| That puts on God the lie | Z |
| That saith men shall turn unto nought | Y |
| When they be sick and die | Y |
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| Alas death is but as the door | G |
| Through which all men do pass | A2 |
| To that which they for evermore | G |
| Shall have by wrath or grace | D |
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| Let all therefore that read my lines | B2 |
| Apply them to the heart | Y |
| Yea let them read and turn betimes | B2 |
| And get the better part | Y |
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| Mind therefore what I treat on here | C2 |
| Yea mind and weigh it well | E |
| 'Tis death and judgment and a clear | D2 |
| Discourse of heaven and hell | E |
John Bunyan
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