Holy Sonnet Ix: If Poisonous Minerals, And If That Tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBAACCADD| If poisonous minerals and if that tree | A |
| Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us | B |
| If lecherous goats if serpents envious | B |
| Cannot be damned alas why should I be | A |
| Why should intent or reason born in me | A |
| Make sins else equal in me more heinous | B |
| And Mercy being easy and glorious | B |
| To God in his stern wrath why threatens he | A |
| But who am I that dare dispute with thee | A |
| O God Oh of thine only worthy blood | C |
| And my tears make a heavenly Lethean flood | C |
| And drown in it my sin's black memory | A |
| That thou remember them some claim as debt | D |
| I think it mercy if thou wilt forget | D |
John Donne
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