Doctor B. Of Tears Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDCEE AAFCFCGG HHIAAIJK CCLMMNOP QRSMSTU VVWSWSCC| Who would have thought there could have bin | A |
| Such joy in tears wept for our sin | A |
| Mine eyes have seen my heart hath prov'd | B |
| The most and best of earthly joyes | C |
| The sweets of love and being lov'd | D |
| Masks Feasts and Playes and such like toyes | C |
| Yet this one tear which now doth fall | E |
| In true delight exceeds them all | E |
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| Indeed mine eyes at first let in | A |
| Those guests that did these woes begin | A |
| Therefore mine eyes in tears and grief | F |
| Are justly drown'd but that those tears | C |
| Should comfort bring is past belief | F |
| Oh God in this thy grace appears | C |
| Thou that mak'st light from darkness spring | G |
| Mak'st joyes to weep and sorrows sing | G |
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| Oh where am I what may I think | H |
| Help help alas my heart doth sink | H |
| Thus lost in seas of woe | I |
| Thus laden with my sin | A |
| Waves of despair dash in | A |
| And threat my overthrow | I |
| What heart opprest with such a weight | J |
| Can chuse but break and perish quite | K |
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| Yet as at Sea in storms men use | C |
| The Ship to save the goods to lose | C |
| So in this fearfull storm | L |
| This danger to prevent | M |
| Before all hope be spent | M |
| I'le chuse the lesser harm | N |
| My tears to seas will convert | O |
| And drown my eyes to save my heart | P |
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| Oh God my God what shall I give | Q |
| To thee in thanks I am and live | R |
| In thee and thou didst safe preserve | S |
| My health my fame my goods my rent | M |
| Thou mak'st me eat while others sterve | S |
| Such unto me thy Blessings are | T |
| As if I were thy only care | U |
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| But oh my God thou art more kind | V |
| When I look inward on my mind | V |
| Thou fill'st my heart with humble joy | W |
| With patience meekness fervant love | S |
| Which doth all other loves destroy | W |
| With faith which nothing can remove | S |
| And hope assur'd of heavens bliss | C |
| This is my state thy grace is this | C |
Sir Henry Wotton
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