Holy Sonnet Iv: Oh My Black Soul! Now Art Thou Summoned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBBADEDEFF| Oh my black soul now art thou summoned | A |
| By sickness death's herald and champion | B |
| Thou art like a pilgrim which abroad hath done | B |
| Treason and durst not turn to whence he is fled | C |
| Or like a thief which till death's doom be read | C |
| Wisheth himself delivered from prison | B |
| But damned and haled to execution | B |
| Wisheth that still he might be imprisoned | A |
| Yet grace if thou repent thou canst not lack | D |
| But who shall give thee that grace to begin | E |
| Oh make thy self with holy mourning black | D |
| And red with blushing as thou art with sin | E |
| Or wash thee in Christ's blood which hath this might | F |
| That being red it dyes red souls to white | F |
John Donne
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