Of The Spouse Of Christ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFEFEGEGEEEE EHIHIJKEJELELEFMFMNO NOPEAPENQNQFRFRESES| Who's this that cometh from the wilderness | A |
| Like smokey pillars thus perfum'd with myrrh | B |
| Leaning upon her dearest in distress | C |
| Led into's bosom by the Comforter | B |
| She's clothed with the sun crowned with twelve stars | D |
| The spotted moon her footstool she hath made | E |
| The dragon her assaults fills her with jars | D |
| Yet rests she under her Beloved's shade | E |
| But whence was she what is her pedigree | F |
| Was not her father a poor Amorite | E |
| What was her mother but as others be | F |
| A poor a wretched and a sinful Hittite | E |
| Yea as for her the day that she was born | G |
| As loathsome out of doors they did her cast | E |
| Naked and filthy stinking and forlorn | G |
| This was her pedigree from first to last | E |
| Nor was she pitied in this estate | E |
| All let her lie polluted in her blood | E |
| None her condition did commiserate | E |
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| There was no heart that sought to do her good | E |
| Yet she unto these ornaments is come | H |
| Her breasts are fashioned her hair is grown | I |
| She is made heiress of the best kingdom | H |
| All her indignities away are blown | I |
| Cast out she was but now she home is taken | J |
| Naked sometimes | K |
| but now you see she's cloth'd | E |
| Now made the darling though before forsaken | J |
| Barefoot but now as princes' daughters shod | E |
| Instead of filth she now has her perfumes | L |
| Instead of ignominy her chains of gold | E |
| Instead of what the beauty most consumes | L |
| Her beauty's perfect lovely to behold | E |
| Those that attend and wait upon her be | F |
| Princes of honour clothed in white array | M |
| Upon her head's a crown of gold and she | F |
| Eats wheat honey and oil from day to day | M |
| For her beloved he's the high'st of all | N |
| The only Potentate the King of kings | O |
| Angels and men do him Jehovah call | N |
| And from him life and glory always springs | O |
| He's white and ruddy and of all the chief | P |
| His head his locks his eyes his hands and feet | E |
| Do for completeness | A |
| out go all belief | P |
| His cheeks like flowers are his mouth most sweet | E |
| As for his wealth he is made heir of all | N |
| What is in heaven what is on earth is his | Q |
| And he this lady his joint heir doth call | N |
| Of all that shall be or at present is | Q |
| Well lady well God has been good to thee | F |
| Thou of an outcast now art made a queen | R |
| Few or none may with thee compared be | F |
| A beggar made thus high is seldom seen | R |
| Take heed of pride remember what thou art | E |
| By nature though thou hast in grace a share | S |
| Thou in thyself dost yet retain a part | E |
| Of thine own filthiness wherefore beware | S |
John Bunyan
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