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Of Hell And The Estate Of Those Who Perish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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hus having show'd you what I see	A
Of heaven I now will tell	B
You also after search what be	A
The damned wights of hell	B
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And O that they who read my lines	C
Would ponder soberly	A
And lay to heart such things betimes	C
As touch eternity	A
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The sleepy sinner little thinks	C
What sorrows will abound	D
Within him when upon the brinks	C
Of Tophet he is found	D
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Hell is beyond all though a state	E
So doubtful and forlorn	F
So fearful that none can relate	E
The pangs that there are born	F
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God will exclude them utterly	A
From his most blessed face	C
And them involve in misery	A
In shame and in disgrace	C
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God is the fountain of all bliss	C
Of life of light and peace	C
They then must needs be comfortless	C
Who are depriv'd of these	C
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Instead of life a living death	G
Will there in all be found	D
Dyings will be in every breath	G
Thus sorrow will abound	D
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No light but darkness here doth dwell	B
No peace but horror strange	H
The fearful damning wights of hell	B
In all will make this change	H
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To many things the damned's woe	I
Is liked in the word	J
And that because no one can show	I
The vengeance of the Lord	K
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Unto a dreadful burning lake	L
All on a fiery flame	M
Hell is compared for to make	L
All understand the same	M
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A burning lake a furnace hot	N
A burning oven too	O
Must be the portion share and lot	N
Of those which evil sow	C
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This plainly shows the burning heat	P
With which it will oppress	C
All hearts and will like burnings eat	P
Their souls with sore distress	C
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This burning lake it is God's wrath	Q
Incensed by the sin	R
Of those who do reject his path	Q
And wicked ways walk in	R
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Which wrath will so perplex all parts	C
Of body and of soul	S
As if up to the very hearts	C
In burnings they did roll	S
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Again to show the stinking state	E
Of this so sad a case	C
Like burning brimstone God doth make	L
The hidings of his face	C
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And truly as the steam and smoke	T
And flames of brimstone smell	B
To blind the eyes and stomach choke	T
So are the pangs of hell	B
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To see a sea of brimstone burn	U
Who would it not affright	E
But they whom God to hell doth turn	U
Are in most woful plight	E
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This burning cannot quenched be	A
No not with tears of blood	E
No mournful groans in misery	A
Will here do any good	E
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O damned men this is your fate	E
The day of grace is done	V
Repentance now doth come too late	E
Mercy is fled and gone	W
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Your groans and cries they sooner should	E
Have sounded in mine ears	C
If grace you would have had or would	E
Have me regard your tears	C
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Me you offended with your sin	R
Instructions you did slight	E
Your sins against my law hath been	R
Justice shall have his right	E
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I gave my Son to do you good	E
I gave you space and time	X
With him to close which you withstood	E
And did with hell combine	Y
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Justice against you now is set	E
Which you cannot appease	C
Eternal justice doth you let	E
From either life or ease	C
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Thus he that to this place doth come	Z
May groan and sigh and weep	A2
But sin hath made that place his home	B2
And there it will him keep	A2
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Wherefore hell in another place	C
Is call'd a prison too	E
And all to show the evil case	C
Of all sin doth undo	E
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Which prison with its locks and bars	C
Of God's lasting decree	A
Will hold them fast O how this mars	C
All thought of being free	A
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Out at these brazen bars they may	C2
The saints in glory see	A
But this will not their grief allay	C2
But to them torment be	A
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Thus they in this infernal cave	D2
Will now be holden fast	E
From heavenly freedom though they crave	D2
Of it they may not taste	E
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The chains that darkness on them hangs	C
Still ratt'ling in their ears	C
Creates within them heavy pangs	C
And still augments their fears	C
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Thus hopeless of all remedy	A
They dyingly do sink	E2
Into the jaws of misery	A
And seas of sorrow drink	E2
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For being cop'd on every side	E
With helplessness and grief	F2
Headlong into despair they slide	E
Bereft of all relief	F2
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Therefore this hell is called a pit	E
Prepared for those that die	E
The second death a term most fit	E
To show their misery	A
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A pit that's bottomless is this	C
A gulf of grief and woe	I
A dungeon which they cannot miss	C
That will themselves undo	E
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Thus without stay they always sink	E2
Thus fainting still they fail	G2
Despair they up like water drink	E2
These prisoners have no bail	G2
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Here meets them now that worm that gnaws	C
And plucks their bowels out	E
The pit too on them shuts her jaws	C
This dreadful is no doubt	E
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This ghastly worm is guilt for sin	R
Which on the conscience feeds	C
With vipers' teeth both sharp and keen	H2
Whereat it sorely bleeds	C
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This worm is fed by memory	A
Which strictly brings to mind	E
All things done in prosperity	A
As we in Scripture find	E
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No word nor thought nor act they did	E
But now is set in sight	E
Not one of them can now be hid	E
Memory gives them light	E
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On which the understanding still	I2
Will judge and sentence pass	C
This kills the mind and wounds the will	I2
Alas alas alas	C
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O conscience is the slaughter shop	J2
There hangs the axe and knife	K2
'Tis there the worm makes all things hot	E
And wearies out the life	K2
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Here then is execution done	V
On body and on soul	S
For conscience will be brib'd of none	V
But gives to all their dole	S
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This worm 'tis said shall never die	E
But in the belly be	A
Of all that in the flames shall lie	E
O dreadful sight to see	A
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This worm now needs must in them live	L2
For sin will still be there	M2
And guilt for God will not forgive	N2
Nor Christ their burden bear	M2
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But take from them all help and stay	C2
And leave them to despair	M2
Which feeds upon them night and day	C2
This is the damned's share	M2
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Now will confusion so possess	C
These monuments of ire	O2
And so confound them with distress	C
And trouble their desire	P2
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That what to think or what to do	E
Or where to lay their head	E
They know not 'tis the damned's woe	I
To live and yet be dead	E
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These cast aways would fain have life	K2
But know they never shall	Q2
They would forget their dreadful plight	E
But that sticks fast'st of all	R2
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God Christ and heaven they know are best	E
Yet dare not on them think	E2
The saints they know in joys do rest	E
While they their tears do drink	E2
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They cry alas but all in vain	S2
They stick fast in the mire	O2
They would be rid of present pain	S2
Yet set themselves on fire	P2
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Darkness is their perplexity	A
Yet do they hate the light	E
They always see their misery	A
Yet are themselves all night	E
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They are all dead yet live they do	E
Yet neither live nor die	E
They die to weal and live to woe	I
This is their misery	A
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Amidst all this so great a scare	M2
That here I do relate	E
Another falleth to their share	M2
In this their sad estate	E
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The legions of infernal fiends	C
Then with them needs must be	A
A just reward for all their pains	C
This they shall feel and see	A
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With yellings howlings shrieks and cries	C
And other doleful noise	C
With trembling hearts and failing eyes	C
These are their hellish joys	C
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These angels black they would obey	C2
And serve with greedy mind	E
And take delight to go astray	C2
That pleasure they might find	E
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Which pleasure now like poison turns	C
Their joy to heaviness	C
Yea like the gall of asps it burns	C
And doth them sore oppress	C
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Now is the joy they lived in	R
All turned to brinish tears	C
And resolute attempts to sin	R
Turn'd into hellish fears	C
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The floods run trickling down their face	C
Their hearts do prick and ache	L
While they lament their woful case	C
Their loins totter and shake	L
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O wetted cheeks with bleared eyes	C
How fully do you show	I
The pangs that in their bosom lies	C
And grief they undergo	I
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Their dolour in their bitterness	C
So greatly they bemoan	T2
That hell itself this to express	C
Doth echo with their groan	T2
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Thus broiling on the burning grates	C
They now to wailing go	I
And say of those unhappy fates	C
That did them thus undo	E
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Alas my grief hard hap had I	E
Those dolours here to find	E
A living death in hell I lie	E
Involv'd with grief of mind	E
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I once was fair for light and grace	C
My days were long and good	E
I lived in a blessed place	C
Where was most heav'nly food	E
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But wretch I am I slighted life	K2
I chose in death to live	L2
O for these days now if I might	E
Ten thousand worlds would give	N2
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What time had I to pray and read	E
What time to hear the word	E
Wha	I