Look Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHIHJJ KLMJNN| Retired thoughts enjoy their own delights | A |
| As beauty doth in self beholding eye | B |
| Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights | A |
| A brief wherein all marvels summed lie | B |
| Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store | C |
| Most graceful all yet thought may grace them more | C |
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| The mind a creature is yet can create | D |
| To nature's patterns adding higher skill | E |
| Of finest works with better could the state | D |
| If force of wit had equal power of will | E |
| Device of man in working hath no end | F |
| What thought can think another thought can mend | F |
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| Man's soul of endless beauty image is | G |
| Drawn by the work of endless skill and might | H |
| This skillful might gave many sparks of bliss | I |
| And to discern this bliss a native light | H |
| To frame God's image as his worths required | J |
| His might his skill his word and will conspired | J |
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| All that he had his image should present | K |
| All that it should present it could afford | L |
| To that he could afford his will was bent | M |
| His will was followed with performing word | J |
| Let this suffice by this conceive the rest | N |
| He should he could he would he did the best | N |
Robert Southwell
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