From -the Cross- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFBBGGHHIIJJ BB| Who can blot out the Cross which th instrument | A |
| Of God dew d on me in the Sacrament | A |
| Who can deny me power and liberty | B |
| To stretch mine arms and mine own Cross to be | B |
| Swim and at every stroke thou art thy Cross | C |
| The Mast and yard make one where seas do toss | C |
| Look down thou spiest out Crosses in small things | D |
| Look up thou seest birds rais d on crossed wings | D |
| All the Globes frame and spheres is nothing else | E |
| But the Meridians crossing Parallels | F |
| Material Crosses then good physic bee | B |
| But yet spiritual have chief dignity | B |
| These for extracted chemic medicine serve | G |
| And cure much better and as well preserve | G |
| Then are you your own physic or need none | H |
| When Still d or purg d by tribulation | H |
| For when that Cross ungrudg d unto you sticks | I |
| Then are you to your self a Crucifix | I |
| As perchance Carvers do not faces make | J |
| But that away which hid them there do take | J |
| Let Crosses so take what hid Christ in thee | B |
| And be his image or not his but he | B |
John Donne
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