Resurrection, Imperfect Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCDDEFGGHHAAIJ KKL| Sleep sleep old Sun thou canst not have repast | A |
| As yet the wound thou took st on friday last | A |
| Sleep then and rest The world may bearer thy stay | A |
| A better Sun rose before thee to day | A |
| Who not content to englighten all that dwell | B |
| On the earths face as thou enlightned hell | B |
| And made the darker fires languish in that vale | C |
| As at thy presence here our fires grow pale | C |
| Whose body having walk d on earth and now | D |
| Hasting to Heaven would that he might allow | D |
| Himself unto all stations and fill all | E |
| For these three days become a mineral | F |
| He was all gold when he lay down but rose | G |
| All tincture and doth not alone dispose | G |
| Leaden and iron wills to good but is | H |
| Of power to make even sinful flesh like his | H |
| Had one of those whose credulous piety | A |
| Thought that a Soul one might discern and see | A |
| Go from a body at this sepulcher been | I |
| And issuing from the sheet this body seen | J |
| He would have justly thought this body a soul | K |
| If not of any man yet of the whole | K |
| Desunt c tera | L |
John Donne
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