Holy Sonnet V: I Am A Little World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBBBACDCEAA| I am a little world made cunningly | A |
| Of Elements and an Angelike spright | B |
| But black sinne hath betraid to endlesse night | B |
| My worlds both parts and oh both parts must die | B |
| You which beyond that heaven which was most high | B |
| Have found new sphears and of new lands can write | B |
| Powre new seas in mine eyes that so I might | B |
| Drowne my world with my weeping earnestly | A |
| Or wash it if it must be drown'd no more | C |
| But oh it must be burnt alas the fire | D |
| Of lust and envie have burnt it heretofore | C |
| And made it fouler Let their flames retire | E |
| And burne me o Lord with a fiery zeale | A |
| Of thee and thy house which doth in eating heale | A |
John Donne
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