Abide With Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC BBCC BBCC DDCC EECC FFCC GHCC IICC| Abide with us for it is towards evening and the day is far spent Luke xxiv | A |
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| Abide with me Fast falls the Eventide | B |
| The darkness thickens Lord with me abide | B |
| When other helpers fail and comforts flee | C |
| Help of the helpless O abide with me | C |
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| Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day | B |
| Earth's joys grow dim its glories pass away | B |
| Change and decay in all around I see | C |
| O Thou who changest not abide with me | C |
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| Not a brief glance I beg a passing word | B |
| But as Thou dwellst with thy disciples Lord | B |
| Familiar condescending patient free | C |
| Come not to sojourn but abide with me | C |
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| Come not in terrors as the King of kings | D |
| But kind and good with healing in Thy wings | D |
| Tears for all woes a heart for every plea | C |
| Come Friend of sinners and thus bide with me | C |
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| Thou on my head in early youth did smile | E |
| And though rebellious and perverse meanwhile | E |
| Thou hast not left me oft as I left Thee | C |
| On to the close O Lord abide with me | C |
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| I need thy presence every passing hour | F |
| What but thy grace can foil the Tempter's power | F |
| Who like Thyself my guide and stay can be | C |
| Through cloud and sunshine O abide with me | C |
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| I fear no foe with thee at hand to bless | G |
| Ills have no weight and tears no bitterness | H |
| Where is death's sting where grave thy victory | C |
| I triumph still if Thou abide with me | C |
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| Hold then thy cross before my closing eyes | I |
| Speak through the gloom and point me to the skies | I |
| Heaven's morning breaks and Earth's vain shadows flee | C |
| In life in death O Lord abide with me | C |
Henry Francis Lyte
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