Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord, If I Contend Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CDDC CEDCFGFHFH| Justus quidem tu es Domine si disputem tecum | A |
| verumtamen justa loquar ad te | B |
| Quare via impiorum prosperatur c | B |
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| Thou art indeed just Lord if I contend | C |
| With thee but sir so what I plead is just | D |
| Why do sinners' ways prosper and why must | D |
| Disappointment all I endeavour end | C |
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| Wert thou my enemy O thou my friend | C |
| How wouldst thou worse I wonder than thou dost | E |
| Defeat thwart me Oh the sots and thralls of lust | D |
| Do in spare hours more thrive than I that spend | C |
| Sir life upon thy cause See banks and brakes | F |
| Now leav egrave d how thick lac egrave d they are again | G |
| With fretty chervil look and fresh wind shakes | F |
| Them birds build but not I build no but strain | H |
| Time's eunuch and not breed one work that wakes | F |
| Mine O thou lord of life send my roots rain | H |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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