The Necessity Of A New Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC DD EE FF GG HH II EE| Now wouldst thou have a heart that tender is | A |
| A heart that forward is to close with bliss | B |
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| A heart that will impressions freely take | C |
| Of the new covenant and that will make | C |
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| The best improvement of the word of grace | D |
| And that to wickedness will not give place | D |
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| All this is in the promise and it may | E |
| Obtained be of them that humbly pray | E |
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| Wouldst thou enjoy that spirit that is free | F |
| And looseth those that in their spirits be | F |
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| Oppressed with guilt or filth or unbelief | G |
| That spirit that will where it dwells be chief | G |
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| Which breaketh Samson's cord as rotten thread | H |
| And raiseth up the spirit that is dead | H |
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| That sets the will at liberty to choose | I |
| Those things that God hath promis'd to infuse | I |
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| Into the humble heart All this I say | E |
| The promise holdeth out to them that pray | E |
John Bunyan
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