Upon The Flint In The Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFGGHI J KKLL| This flint time out of mind has there abode | A |
| Where crystal streams make their continual road | A |
| Yet it abides a flint as much as 'twere | B |
| Before it touched the water or came there | B |
| Its hard obdurateness is not abated | C |
| 'Tis not at all by water penetrated | D |
| Though water hath a soft'ning virtue in't | E |
| This stone it can't dissolve for 'tis a flint | F |
| Yea though it in the water doth remain | G |
| It doth its fiery nature still retain | G |
| If you oppose it with its opposite | H |
| At you yea in your face its fire 'twill spit | I |
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| Comparison | J |
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| This flint an emblem is of those that lie | K |
| Like stones under the Word until they die | K |
| Its crystal streams have not their nature changed | L |
| They are not from their lusts by grace estranged | L |
John Bunyan
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