Upon The Lark And The Fowler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIAA JKLLMNLL O GGPPQQRSTT| Thou simple bird what makes thou here to play | A |
| Look there's the fowler pr'ythee come away | A |
| Do'st not behold the net Look there 'tis spread | B |
| Venture a little further thou art dead | B |
| Is there not room enough in all the field | C |
| For thee to play in but thou needs must yield | C |
| To the deceitful glitt'ring of a glass | D |
| Plac'd betwixt nets to bring thy death to pass | D |
| Bird if thou art so much for dazzling light | E |
| Look there's the sun above thee dart upright | E |
| Thy nature is to soar up to the sky | F |
| Why wilt thou come down to the nets and die | F |
| Take no heed to the fowler's tempting call | G |
| This whistle he enchanteth birds withal | G |
| Or if thou see'st a live bird in his net | H |
| Believe she's there 'cause hence she cannot get | H |
| Look how he tempteth thee with is decoy | I |
| That he may rob thee of thy life thy joy | I |
| Come pr'ythee bird I pr'ythee come away | A |
| Why should this net thee take when 'scape thou may | A |
| Hadst thou not wings or were thy feathers pull'd | J |
| Or wast thou blind or fast asleep wer't lull'd | K |
| The case would somewhat alter but for thee | L |
| Thy eyes are ope and thou hast wings to flee | L |
| Remember that thy song is in thy rise | M |
| Not in thy fall earth's not thy paradise | N |
| Keep up aloft then let thy circuits be | L |
| Above where birds from fowler's nets are free | L |
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| Comparison | O |
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| This fowler is an emblem of the devil | G |
| His nets and whistle figures of all evil | G |
| His glass an emblem is of sinful pleasure | P |
| And his decoy of who counts sin a treasure | P |
| This simple lark's a shadow of a saint | Q |
| Under allurings ready now to faint | Q |
| This admonisher a true teacher is | R |
| Whose works to show the soul the snare and bliss | S |
| And how it may this fowler's net escape | T |
| And not commit upon itself this rape | T |
John Bunyan
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