The Potter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACA DEFDGD HIIHJH| A Potter playing with his lump of clay | A |
| Fashioned an image of supremest worth | B |
| Never was nobler image made on earth | B |
| Than this that I have fashioned of my clay | A |
| And I of mine own skill did fashion it | C |
| I from this lump of clay | A |
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| The Master looking out on Pots and Men | D |
| Heard his vain boasting smiled at that he said | E |
| The clay is Mine and I the Potter made | F |
| As I made all things stars and clay and men | D |
| In what doth this man overpass the rest | G |
| Be thou as other men | D |
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| He touched the Image and it fell to dust | H |
| He touched the Potter he to dust did fall | I |
| Gently the Master I did make them all | I |
| All things and men heaven's glories and the dust | H |
| Who with Me works shall quicken death itself | J |
| Without Me dust is dust | H |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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