To His Sweet Saviour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCCDDEFCCGGNight hath no wings to him that cannot sleep | A |
And Time seems then not for to fly but creep | A |
Slowly her chariot drives as if that she | B |
Had broke her wheel or crack'd her axletree | C |
Just so it is with me who list'ning pray | C |
The winds to blow the tedious night away | C |
That I might see the cheerful peeping day | C |
Sick is my heart O Saviour do Thou please | D |
To make my bed soft in my sicknesses | D |
Lighten my candle so that I beneath | E |
Sleep not for ever in the vaults of death | F |
Let me thy voice betimes i' th' morning hear | C |
Call and I'll come say Thou the when and where | C |
Draw me but first and after Thee I'll run | G |
And make no one stop till my race be done | G |
Robert Herrick
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