Nineteenth Sunday After Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIHIJJ KLMLJJ NONOPP QRQRSS TUTUVV MWMWXX YZYZWW A2WA2WWW B2C2B2D2BBThen Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished and rose up in | A |
haste and spake and said unto his counsellors Did not we | B |
cast three men bound into the midst of the fire They | C |
answered and said unto the king True O king He answered | D |
and said Lo I see four men loose walking in the midst of | E |
the fire and they have no hurt and the form of the fourth | F |
is like the Son of God Daniel iii | G |
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When Persecution's torrent blaze | H |
Wraps the unshrinking Martyr's head | I |
When fade all earthly flowers and bays | H |
When summer friends are gone and fled | I |
Is he alone in that dark hour | J |
Who owns the Lord of love and power | J |
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Or waves there not around his brow | K |
A wand no human arm may wield | L |
Fraught with a spell no angels know | M |
His steps to guide his soul to shield | L |
Thou Saviour art his Charmed Bower | J |
His Magic Ring his Rock his Tower | J |
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And when the wicked ones behold | N |
Thy favourites walking in Thy light | O |
Just as in fancy triumph bold | N |
They deemed them lost in deadly night | O |
Amazed they cry What spell is this | P |
Which turns their sufferings all to bliss | P |
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How are they free whom we had bound | Q |
Upright whom in the gulf we cast | R |
What wondrous helper have they found | Q |
To screen them from the scorching blast | R |
Three were they who hath made them four | S |
And sure a form divine he wore | S |
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E'en like the Son of God So cried | T |
The Tyrant when in one fierce flame | U |
The Martyrs lived the murderers died | T |
Yet knew he not what angel came | U |
To make the rushing fire flood seem | V |
Like summer breeze by woodland stream | V |
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He knew not but there are who know | M |
The Matron who alone hath stood | W |
When not a prop seemed left below | M |
The first lorn hour of widowhood | W |
Yet cheered and cheering all the while | X |
With sad but unaffected smile | X |
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The Father who his vigil keeps | Y |
By the sad couch whence hope hath flown | Z |
Watching the eye where reason sleeps | Y |
Yet in his heart can mercy own | Z |
Still sweetly yielding to the rod | W |
Still loving man still thanking GOD | W |
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The Christian Pastor bowed to earth | A2 |
With thankless toil and vile esteemed | W |
Still travailing in second birth | A2 |
Of souls that will not be redeemed | W |
Yet stedfast set to do his part | W |
And fearing most his own vain heart | W |
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These know on these look long and well | B2 |
Cleansing thy sight by prayer and faith | C2 |
And thou shalt know what secret spell | B2 |
Preserves them in their living death | D2 |
Through sevenfold flames thine eye shall see | B |
The Saviour walking with His faithful Three | B |
John Keble
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