A Hymn To Christ At The Author's Last Going Into Germany Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDC EEEEFFGF HHIIEEJE KKEELLML| In what torn ship soever I embark | A |
| That ship shall be my emblem of thy Ark | A |
| What sea soever swallow me that flood | B |
| Shall be to me an emblem of thy blood | B |
| Though thou with clouds of anger do disguise | C |
| Thy face yet through that mask I know those eyes | C |
| Which though they turn away sometimes | D |
| They never will despise | C |
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| I sacrifice this Island unto thee | E |
| And all whom I loved there and who loved me | E |
| When I have put our seas 'twixt them and me | E |
| Put thou thy sea betwixt my sins and thee | E |
| As the tree's sap doth seek the root below | F |
| In winter in my winter now I go | F |
| Where none but thee th' Eternal root | G |
| Of true Love I may know | F |
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| Nor thou nor thy religion dost control | H |
| The amorousness of an harmonious Soul | H |
| But thou wouldst have that love thyself as thou | I |
| Art jealous Lord so I am jealous now | I |
| Thou lov'st not till from loving more Thou free | E |
| My soul who ever gives takes liberty | E |
| O if thou car'st not whom I love | J |
| Alas thou lov'st not me | E |
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| Seal then this bill of my Divorce to All | K |
| On whom those fainter beams of love did fall | K |
| Marry those loves which in youth scattered be | E |
| On Fame Wit Hopes false mistresses to thee | E |
| Churches are best for Prayer that have least light | L |
| To see God only I go out of sight | L |
| And to 'scape stormy days I choose | M |
| An Everlasting night | L |
John Donne
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