Holy Sonnet Xii: Why Are We Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCBBCDEEDDD| Why are wee by all creatures waited on | A |
| Why doe the prodigall elements supply | B |
| Life and food to mee 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 weaknesse and by one mans stroke die | B |
| Whose whole kinde you might swallow and feed upon | C |
| Weaker I am woe is mee and worse than you | D |
| You have not sinn'd 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 tyed | D |
| For us his Creatures and his foes hath dyed | D |
John Donne
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