Of The Love Of Christ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFFGGHIHHHIJJKD LMNNOOHIPQHIRRSTUUVV WWXX| The love of Christ poor I may touch upon | A |
| But 'tis unsearchable O there is none | B |
| Its large dimensions can comprehend | C |
| Should they dilate thereon world without end | C |
| When we had sinned in his zeal he swore | D |
| That he upon his back our sins would bear | E |
| And since unto sin is entailed death | F |
| He vowed for our sins he'd lose his breath | F |
| He did not only say vow or resolve | G |
| But to astonishment did so involve | G |
| Himself in man's distress and misery | H |
| As for and with him both to live and die | I |
| To his eternal fame in sacred story | H |
| We find that he did lay aside his glory | H |
| Stepped from the throne of highest dignity | H |
| Became poor man did in a manger lie | I |
| Yea was beholden unto his for bread | J |
| Had of his own not where to lay his head | J |
| Though rich he did for us become thus poor | K |
| That he might make us rich for evermore | D |
| Nor was this but the least of what he did | L |
| But the outside of what he suffered | M |
| God made his blessed son under the law | N |
| Under the curse which like the lion's paw | N |
| Did rent and tear his soul for mankind's sin | O |
| More than if we for it in hell had been | O |
| His cries his tears and bloody agony | H |
| The nature of his death doth testify | I |
| Nor did he of constraint himself thus give | P |
| For sin to death that man might with him live | Q |
| He did do what he did most willingly | H |
| He sung and gave God thanks that he must die | I |
| But do kings use to die for captive slaves | R |
| Yet we were such when Jesus died to save's | R |
| Yea when he made himself a sacrifice | S |
| It was that he might save his enemies | T |
| And though he was provoked to retract | U |
| His blest resolves for such so good an act | U |
| By the abusive carriages of those | V |
| That did both him his love and grace oppose | V |
| Yet he as unconcerned with such things | W |
| Goes on determines to make captives kings | W |
| Yea many of his murderers he takes | X |
| Into his favour and them princes makes | X |
John Bunyan
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