I Rose Up At The Dawn Of Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCDE FFGG AAHH AAII AAJJ CCKK| I rose up at the dawn of day | A |
| Get thee away get thee away | A |
| Pray'st thou for riches Away away | A |
| This is the Throne of Mammon grey ' | B |
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| Said I This sure is very odd | C |
| I took it to be the Throne of God | C |
| For everything besides I have | D |
| It is only for riches that I can crave | E |
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| I have mental joy and mental health | F |
| And mental friends and mental wealth | F |
| I've a wife I love and that loves me | G |
| I've all but riches bodily | G |
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| I am in God's presence night and day | A |
| And He never turns His face away | A |
| The accuser of sins by my side doth stand | H |
| And he holds my money bag in his hand | H |
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| For my worldly things God makes him pay | A |
| And he'd pay for more if to him I would pray | A |
| And so you may do the worst you can do | I |
| Be assur'd Mr Devil I won't pray to you | I |
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| Then if for riches I must not pray | A |
| God knows I little of prayers need say | A |
| So as a church is known by its steeple | J |
| If I pray it must be for other people | J |
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| He says if I do not worship him for a God | C |
| I shall eat coarser food and go worse shod | C |
| So as I don't value such things as these | K |
| You must do Mr Devil just as God please | K |
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