On Mr. G. Herbert's Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGHFIIJJ| Know you fair on what you look | A |
| Divinest love lies in this book | A |
| Expecting fire from your eyes | B |
| To kindle this his sacrifice | C |
| When your hands untie these strings | D |
| Think you'have an angel by th' wings | D |
| One that gladly will be nigh | E |
| To wait upon each morning sigh | E |
| To flutter in the balmy air | F |
| Of your well perfumed prayer | F |
| These white plumes of his he'll lend you | G |
| Which every day to heaven will send you | G |
| To take acquaintance of the sphere | H |
| And all the smooth fac'd kindred there | F |
| And though Herbert's name do owe | I |
| These devotions fairest know | I |
| That while I lay them on the shrine | J |
| Of your white hand they are mine | J |
Richard Crashaw
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