Sweet Are His Ways Who Rules Above. (hymn) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB DEED FGGF HCCH IGGI BJJB| Though I take the wings of the morning | A |
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| Sweet are His ways who rules above | B |
| He gives from wrath a sheltering place | C |
| But covert none is found from grace | C |
| Man shall not hide himself from love | B |
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| What though I take to me the wide | D |
| Wings of the morning and forth fly | E |
| Faster He goes whoso care on high | E |
| Shepherds the stars and doth them guide | D |
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| What though the tents foregone I roam | F |
| Till day wax dim lamenting me | G |
| He wills that I shall sleep to see | G |
| The great gold stairs to His sweet home | F |
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| What though the press I pass before | H |
| And climb the branch He lifts his face | C |
| I am not secret from His grace | C |
| Lost in the leafy sycamore | H |
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| What though denied with murmuring deep | I |
| I shame my Lord it shall not be | G |
| For He will turn and look on me | G |
| Then must I think thereon and weep | I |
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| The nether depth the heights above | B |
| Nor alleys pleach'd of Paradise | J |
| Nor Herod's judgment halls suffice | J |
| Man shall not hide himself from love | B |
Jean Ingelow
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