The Gift Of Perseverance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACBADDEAAA| ONCE as I brooded o'er my guilty state | A |
| A fever seized me duties to devise | B |
| To buy me interest in my Saviour's eyes | B |
| Not that His love I would extenuate | A |
| But scourge and penance masterful self hate | A |
| Or gift of cost served by an artifice | C |
| To quell my restless thoughts and envious sighs | B |
| And doubts which fain heaven's peace would antedate | A |
| Thus as I tossed He said 'E'en holiest deeds | D |
| Shroud not the soul from God nor soothe its needs | D |
| Deny thee thine own fears and wait the end ' | E |
| Stern lesson Let me con it day by day | A |
| And learn to kneel before the Omniscient Ray | A |
| Nor shrink when Truth's avenging shafts descend | A |
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John Henry Newman
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