Immortal Love, Forever Full Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG BHBH IBIB BJBK IDID LMLM LBLB| Immortal love forever full | A |
| Forever flowing free | B |
| Forever shared forever whole | C |
| A never ebbing sea | B |
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| Our outward lips confess the name | D |
| All other names above | E |
| Love only knoweth whence it came | D |
| And comprehendeth love | E |
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| Blow winds of God awake and blow | F |
| The mists of earth away | G |
| Shine out O Light divine and show | F |
| How wide and far we stray | G |
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| We may not climb the heavenly steeps | B |
| To bring the Lord Christ down | H |
| In vain we search the lowest deeps | B |
| For Him no depths can drown | H |
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| But warm sweet tender even yet | I |
| A present help is He | B |
| And faith still has its Olivet | I |
| And love its Galilee | B |
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| The healing of His seamless dress | B |
| Is by our beds of pain | J |
| We touch Him in life s throng and press | B |
| And we are whole again | K |
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| Through Him the first fond prayers are said | I |
| Our lips of childhood frame | D |
| The last low whispers of our dead | I |
| Are burdened with His Name | D |
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| O Lord and Master of us all | L |
| Whate er our name or sign | M |
| We own Thy sway we hear Thy call | L |
| We test our lives by Thine | M |
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| The letter fails the systems fall | L |
| And every symbol wanes | B |
| The Spirit over brooding all | L |
| Eternal Love remains | B |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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