The Holdfast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC D DDDD EE| I threatened to observe the strict decree | A |
| Of my deare God with all my power and might | B |
| But I was told by one It could not be | A |
| Yet I might trust in God to be my light ' | C |
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| Then will I trust ' said I in Him alone ' | - |
| Nay ev'n to trust in Him was also His | D |
| We must confesse that nothing is our own ' | - |
| Then I confesse that He my succour is ' | - |
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| But to have nought is ours not to confesse | D |
| That we have nought ' I stood amaz'd at this | D |
| Much troubled till I heard a friend expresse | D |
| That all things were more ours by being His | D |
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| What Adam had and forfeited for all | E |
| Christ keepeth now Who cannot fail or fall | E |
George Herbert
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