Examples Of Early Piety Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJL MNMO| What blest examples do I find | A |
| Writ in the Word of Truth | B |
| Of children that began to mind | A |
| Religion in their youth | B |
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| Jesus who reigns above the sky | C |
| And keeps the world in awe | D |
| Was once a child as young as I | C |
| And kept His Father's law | E |
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| At twelve years old he talked with men | F |
| The Jews all wondering stand | G |
| Yet He obeyed his Mother then | F |
| And came at her command | G |
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| Children a sweet hosanna sung | H |
| And blest their Savior's name | I |
| They gave Him honor with their tongue | H |
| While scribes and priests blaspheme | I |
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| Samuel the child was weaned and brought | J |
| To wait upon the Lord | K |
| Young Timothy betimes was taught | J |
| To know his holy Word | L |
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| Then why should I so long delay | M |
| What others learnt so soon | N |
| I would not pass another day | M |
| Without this work begun | O |
Isaac Watts
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