Holy Sonnet Xii: Why Are We By All Creatures Waited On? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBBCDEEDFF| Why are we by all creatures waited on | A |
| Why do the prodigal elements supply | B |
| Life and food to me being more pure than I | B |
| Simple and further from corruption | C |
| Why brook'st thou ignorant horse subjection | C |
| Why dost thou bull and bore so seelily | B |
| Dissemble weakness and by one man's stroke die | B |
| Whose whole kind you might swallow and feed upon | C |
| Weaker I am woe is me and worse than you | D |
| You have not sinned nor need be timorous | E |
| But wonder at a greater wonder for to us | E |
| Created nature doth these things subdue | D |
| But their Creator whom sin nor nature tied | F |
| For us His creatures and His foes hath died | F |
John Donne
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