Upon A Sheet Of White Paper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC D EEFFFFGGFF| This subject is unto the foulest pen | A |
| Or fairest handled by the sons of men | A |
| 'Twill also show what is upon it writ | B |
| Be it wisely or nonsense for want of wit | B |
| Each blot and blur it also will expose | C |
| To thy next readers be they friends or foes | C |
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| Comparison | D |
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| Some souls are like unto this blank or sheet | E |
| Though not in whiteness The next man they meet | E |
| If wise or fool debauched or deluder | F |
| Or what you will the dangerous intruder | F |
| May write thereon to cause that man to err | F |
| In doctrine or in life with blot and blur | F |
| Nor will that soul conceal from who observes | G |
| But show how foul it is wherein it swerves | G |
| A reading man may know who was the writer | F |
| And by the hellish nonsense the inditer | F |
John Bunyan
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