Thanksgiving To God, For His House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHIJKLLMM NNOONNPPQQRRNNNNSTUU NNVWXXYZWWNNNNWWQQ| Lord thou hast given me a cell | A |
| Wherein to dwell | A |
| A little house whose humble roof | B |
| Is weather proof | B |
| Under the spars of which I lie | C |
| Both soft and dry | C |
| Where thou my chamber for to ward | D |
| Hast set a guard | E |
| Of harmless thoughts to watch and keep | F |
| Me while I sleep | F |
| Low is my porch as is my fate | G |
| Both void of state | G |
| And yet the threshold of my door | H |
| Is worn by th' poor | I |
| Who thither come and freely get | J |
| Good words or meat | K |
| Like as my parlour so my hall | L |
| And kitchen's small | L |
| A little buttery and therein | M |
| A little bin | M |
| Which keeps my little loaf of bread | N |
| Unchipt unflead | N |
| Some brittle sticks of thorn or briar | O |
| Make me a fire | O |
| Close by whose living coal I sit | N |
| And glow like it | N |
| Lord I confess too when I dine | P |
| The pulse is thine | P |
| And all those other bits that be | Q |
| There placed by thee | Q |
| The worts the purslain and the mess | R |
| Of water cress | R |
| Which of thy kindness thou hast sent | N |
| And my content | N |
| Makes those and my beloved beet | N |
| To be more sweet | N |
| 'Tis thou that crown'st my glittering hearth | S |
| With guiltless mirth | T |
| And giv'st me wassail bowls to drink | U |
| Spiced to the brink | U |
| Lord 'tis thy plenty dropping hand | N |
| That soils my land | N |
| And giv'st me for my bushel sown | V |
| Twice ten for one | W |
| Thou mak'st my teeming hen to lay | X |
| Her egg each day | X |
| Besides my healthful ewes to bear | Y |
| Me twins each year | Z |
| The while the conduits of my kine | W |
| Run cream for wine | W |
| All these and better thou dost send | N |
| Me to this end | N |
| That I should render for my part | N |
| A thankful heart | N |
| Which fired with incense I resign | W |
| As wholly thine | W |
| But the acceptance that must be | Q |
| My Christ by Thee | Q |
Robert Herrick
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