Holy Sonnet V: I Am A Little World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBBBACDCEAAI 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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