To His Saviour's Sepulchre: His Devotion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDDEFGHIJKKKKJJL KMNJJ| Hail holy and all honour'd tomb | A |
| By no ill haunted here I come | B |
| With shoes put off to tread thy room | A |
| I'll not profane by soil of sin | C |
| Thy door as I do enter in | C |
| For I have washed both hand and heart | D |
| This that and every other part | D |
| So that I dare with far less fear | E |
| Than full affection enter here | F |
| Thus thus I come to kiss Thy stone | G |
| With a warm lip and solemn one | H |
| And as I kiss I'll here and there | I |
| Dress Thee with flow'ry diaper | J |
| How sweet this place is as from hence | K |
| Flowed all Panchaia's frankincense | K |
| Or rich Arabia did commix | K |
| Here all her rare aromatics | K |
| Let me live ever here and stir | J |
| No one step from this sepulchre | J |
| Ravish'd I am and down I lie | L |
| Confused in this brave ecstasy | K |
| Here let me rest and let me have | M |
| This for my heaven that was Thy grave | N |
| And coveting no higher sphere | J |
| I'll my eternity spend here | J |
Robert Herrick
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