The Burning Babe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEAECFGFHDIDJKLK MNONPQRSATUT| As I in hoary winter's night | A |
| Stood shivering in the snow | B |
| Surprised I was with sudden heat | C |
| Which made my heart to glow | B |
| And lifting up a fearful eye | D |
| To view what fire was near | E |
| A pretty babe all burning bright | A |
| Did in the air appear | E |
| Who scorch egrave d with excessive heat | C |
| Such floods of tears did shed | F |
| As though His floods should quench His flames | G |
| Which with His tears were bred | F |
| 'Alas ' quoth He 'but newly born | H |
| In fiery heats I fry | D |
| Yet none approach to warm their hearts | I |
| Or feel my fire but I | D |
| 'My faultless breast the furnace is | J |
| The fuel wounding thorns | K |
| Love is the fire and sighs the smoke | L |
| The ashes shames and scorns | K |
| The fuel Justice layeth on | M |
| And Mercy blows the coals | N |
| The metal in this furnace wrought | O |
| Are men's defil egrave d souls | N |
| For which as now on fire I am | P |
| To work them to their good | Q |
| So will I melt into a bath | R |
| To wash them in my blood ' | S |
| With this He vanish'd out of sight | A |
| And swiftly shrunk away | T |
| And straight I call egrave d unto mind | U |
| That it was Christmas Day | T |
Robert Southwell
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