Upon The Skilfull Player Of An Instrument Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE F GHGHIJIKLEME| He that can play well on an instrument | A |
| Will take the ear and captivate the mind | B |
| With mirth or sadness for that it is bent | C |
| Thereto as music in it place doth find | B |
| But if one hears that hath therein no skill | D |
| As often music lights of such a chance | E |
| Of its brave notes they soon be weary will | D |
| And there are some can neither sing nor dance | E |
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| Comparison | F |
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| Unto him that thus skilfully doth play | G |
| God doth compare a gospel minister | H |
| That rightly preacheth and doth godly pray | G |
| Applying truly what doth thence infer | H |
| This man whether of wrath or grace he preach | I |
| So skilfully doth handle every word | J |
| And by his saying doth the heart so reach | I |
| That it doth joy or sigh before the Lord | K |
| But some there be which as the brute doth lie | L |
| Under the Word without the least advance | E |
| Godward such do despise the ministry | M |
| They weep not at it neither to it dance | E |
John Bunyan
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