Nineteenth Sunday After Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIHIJJ KLMLJJ NONOPP QRQRSS TUTUVV MWMWXX YZYZWW A2WA2WWW B2C2B2D2BB

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished and rose up inA
haste and spake and said unto his counsellors Did not weB
cast three men bound into the midst of the fire TheyC
answered and said unto the king True O king He answeredD
and said Lo I see four men loose walking in the midst ofE
the fire and they have no hurt and the form of the fourthF
is like the Son of God Daniel iiiG
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When Persecution's torrent blazeH
Wraps the unshrinking Martyr's headI
When fade all earthly flowers and baysH
When summer friends are gone and fledI
Is he alone in that dark hourJ
Who owns the Lord of love and powerJ
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Or waves there not around his browK
A wand no human arm may wieldL
Fraught with a spell no angels knowM
His steps to guide his soul to shieldL
Thou Saviour art his Charmed BowerJ
His Magic Ring his Rock his TowerJ
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And when the wicked ones beholdN
Thy favourites walking in Thy lightO
Just as in fancy triumph boldN
They deemed them lost in deadly nightO
Amazed they cry What spell is thisP
Which turns their sufferings all to blissP
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How are they free whom we had boundQ
Upright whom in the gulf we castR
What wondrous helper have they foundQ
To screen them from the scorching blastR
Three were they who hath made them fourS
And sure a form divine he woreS
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E'en like the Son of God So criedT
The Tyrant when in one fierce flameU
The Martyrs lived the murderers diedT
Yet knew he not what angel cameU
To make the rushing fire flood seemV
Like summer breeze by woodland streamV
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He knew not but there are who knowM
The Matron who alone hath stoodW
When not a prop seemed left belowM
The first lorn hour of widowhoodW
Yet cheered and cheering all the whileX
With sad but unaffected smileX
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The Father who his vigil keepsY
By the sad couch whence hope hath flownZ
Watching the eye where reason sleepsY
Yet in his heart can mercy ownZ
Still sweetly yielding to the rodW
Still loving man still thanking GODW
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The Christian Pastor bowed to earthA2
With thankless toil and vile esteemedW
Still travailing in second birthA2
Of souls that will not be redeemedW
Yet stedfast set to do his partW
And fearing most his own vain heartW
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These know on these look long and wellB2
Cleansing thy sight by prayer and faithC2
And thou shalt know what secret spellB2
Preserves them in their living deathD2
Through sevenfold flames thine eye shall seeB
The Saviour walking with His faithful ThreeB

John Keble



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