Of The Rose Bush Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGG H IIJJKKCLAAMM| This homely bush doth to mine eyes expose | A |
| A very fair yea comely ruddy rose | A |
| This rose doth also bow its head to me | B |
| Saying Come pluck me I thy rose will be | B |
| Yet offer I to gather rose or bud | C |
| Ten to one but the bush will have my blood | C |
| This looks like a trapan or a decoy | D |
| To offer and yet snap who would enjoy | D |
| Yea the more eager on't the more in danger | E |
| Be he the master of it or a stranger | E |
| Bush why dost bear a rose if none must have it | F |
| Who dost expose it yet claw those that crave it | F |
| Art become freakish dost the wanton play | G |
| Or doth thy testy humour tend its way | G |
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| Comparison | H |
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| This rose God's Son is with his ruddy looks | I |
| But what's the bush whose pricks like tenter hooks | I |
| Do scratch and claw the finest lady's hands | J |
| Or rend her clothes if she too near it stands | J |
| This bush an emblem is of Adam's race | K |
| Of which Christ came when he his Father's grace | K |
| Commended to us in his crimson blood | C |
| While he in sinners' stead and nature stood | L |
| Thus Adam's race did bear this dainty rose | A |
| And doth the same to Adam's race expose | A |
| But those of Adam's race which at it catch | M |
| Adam's race will them prick and claw and scratch | M |
John Bunyan
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