Hymn 14 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BCDC EFEF AGAG HHII JJKL IEAAThe triumph of faith or Christ's unchangeable love | A |
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Rom ff | A |
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Who shall the Lord's elect condemn | B |
'Tis God that justifies their souls | C |
And mercy like a mighty stream | D |
O'er all their sins divinely rolls | C |
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Who shall adjudge the saints to hell | E |
'Tis Christ that suffered in their stead | F |
And the salvation to fulfil | E |
Behold him rising from the dead | F |
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He lives he lives and sits above | A |
For ever interceding there | G |
Who shall divide us from his love | A |
Or what should tempt us to despair | G |
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Shall persecution or distress | H |
Famine or sword or nakedness | H |
He that hath loved us bears us through | I |
And makes us more than conquerors too | I |
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Faith hath an overcoming power | J |
It triumphs in the dying hour | J |
Christ is our life our joy our hope | K |
Nor can we sink with such a prop | L |
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Not all that men on earth can do | I |
Nor powers on high nor powers below | E |
Shall cause his mercy to remove | A |
Or wean our hearts from Christ our love | A |
Isaac Watts
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