Holy Sonnet V: I Am A Little World Made Cunningly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBBADEDFAA| I am a little world made cunningly | A |
| Of elements and an angelic sprite | B |
| But black sin hath betrayed to endless night | B |
| My worlds both parts and oh both parts must die | C |
| You which beyond that heaven which was most high | C |
| Have found new spheres and of new lands can write | B |
| Pour new seas in mine eyes that so I might | B |
| Drown my world with my weeping earnestly | A |
| Or wash it if it must be drowned no more | D |
| But oh it must be burnt alas the fire | E |
| Of lust and envy have burnt it heretofore | D |
| And made it fouler Let their flames retire | F |
| And burn me O Lord with a fiery zeal | A |
| Of Thee and Thy house which doth in eating heal | A |
John Donne
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