Thou Hast Been Alway Good To Me. (hymn) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABA CDCD EFGF HIHI| He doeth all things well | A |
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| Thou hast been alway good to me and mine | B |
| Since our first father by transgression fell | A |
| Through all Thy sorest judgments love doth shine | B |
| Lord of a truth Thou doest all things well | A |
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| Thou didst the food of immortality | C |
| Compass with flame lest he thereto should win | D |
| But what his doom yet eating of that tree | C |
| Had been immortal life of shame and sin | D |
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| I would not last immortal in such wise | E |
| Desir d death not life is now my song | F |
| Through death shall I go back to Paradise | G |
| And sin no more Sweet death tarry not long | F |
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| One did prevail that clos d gate to unseal | H |
| Where yet th' immortalizing tree doth grow | I |
| He shall there meet us and once more reveal | H |
| The fruit of life where crime is not nor woe | I |
Jean Ingelow
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