Of Moses And His Wife Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFGHHCCII| This Moses was a fair and comely man | A |
| His wife a swarthy Ethiopian | B |
| Nor did his milk white bosom change her sin | C |
| She came out thence as black as she went in | C |
| Now Moses was a type of Moses' law | D |
| His wife likewise of one that never saw | D |
| Another way unto eternal life | E |
| There's mystery then in Moses and his wife | E |
| The law is very holy just and good | F |
| And to it is espoused all flesh and blood | G |
| But this its goodness it cannot bestow | H |
| On any that are wedded thereunto | H |
| Therefore as Moses' wife came swarthy in | C |
| And went out from him without change of skin | C |
| So he that doth the law for life adore | I |
| Shall yet by it be left a black a more | I |
John Bunyan
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