A Penitential Hymne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHIJJKKLL MNOOGGAAPP| Hearken O God unto a Wretches cryes | A |
| Who low dejected at thy footstool lies | A |
| Let not the clamour of my heinous sin | B |
| Drown my requests which strive to enter in | B |
| At those bright gates which alwaies open stand | C |
| To such as beg remission at thy hand | C |
| Too well I know if thou in rigour deal | D |
| I can nor pardon ask nor yet appeal | D |
| To my hoarse voice heaven will no audience grant | E |
| But deaf as brass and hard as adamant | F |
| Beat back my words therefore I bring to thee | G |
| A gracious Advocate to plead for me | G |
| What though my leprous soul no Jordan can | H |
| Recure nor flouds of the lav'd Ocean | I |
| Make clean yet from my Saviours bleeding side | J |
| Two large and medicinable rivers glide | J |
| Lord wash me where those streams of life abound | K |
| And new Bethesdaes flow from ev'ry wound | K |
| If I this precious Lather may obtain | L |
| I shall not then despair for any stain | L |
| I need no Gileads balm nor oyl nor shall | M |
| I for the purifying Hyssop call | N |
| My spots will vanish in His purple flood | O |
| And Crimson there turn white though washt with blood | O |
| See Lord with broken heart and bended knee | G |
| How I address my humble suit to Thee | G |
| O give that suit admittance to thy ears | A |
| Which floats to thee not in my words but tears | A |
| And let my sinful soul this mercy crave | P |
| Before I fall into the silent grave | P |
Henry King
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