The Divine Privilege Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BBBB EBEB FGFG HIHI| Lord where are Thy prerogatives | A |
| Why men have more than Thou hast kept | B |
| The king rewards remits forgives | A |
| The poet to a throne has stept | B |
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| And Thou despoiled hast given away | C |
| Worship to men success to strife | D |
| Thy glory to the heavenly day | C |
| And made Thy sun the lord of life | D |
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| Is one too precious to impart | B |
| One property reserved to Christ | B |
| One cherished grappled to that heart | B |
| To be alone the Sacrificed | B |
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| O Thou who lovest to redeem | E |
| One whom I know lies sore oppressed | B |
| Thou wilt not suffer me to dream | E |
| That I can bargain for her rest | B |
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| Seven hours I swiftly sleep while she | F |
| Measures the leagues of dark awake | G |
| O that my dewy eyes might be | F |
| Parched by a vigil for her sake | G |
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| But O rejected O in vain | H |
| I cannot give who would not keep | I |
| I cannot buy I cannot gain | H |
| I cannot give her half my sleep | I |
Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell
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