A Brand Plucked Out Of The Fire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH CJCJ CKCK JJJJ LMLN| With Satan my accuser near | A |
| My spirit trembled when I saw | B |
| The Lord in majesty appear | A |
| And heart the language of the law | B |
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| In vain I wish'd and strove to hide | C |
| The tatter'd filthy rags I wore | D |
| While my fierce foe insulting cry'd | C |
| See what you trusted in before | D |
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| Struck dumb and left without a plea | E |
| I heard my gracious Saviour say | F |
| Know Satan I this sinner free | E |
| I died to take his sin away | F |
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| This is a brand which I in love | G |
| To save from wrath and sin design | H |
| In vain thy accusations prove | I |
| I answer all and call him mine | H |
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| At his rebuke the tempter fled | C |
| Then he remov'd my filthy dress | J |
| Poor sinner take this robe he said | C |
| It is thy Saviour's rightousness | J |
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| And see a crown of life prepar'd | C |
| That I might thus my head adorn | K |
| I thought no shame or suff'ring hard | C |
| But wore for thee a crown of thorn | K |
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| O how I heard these gracious words | J |
| They broke and heal'd my heart at once | J |
| Constrained me to become the Lord's | J |
| And all my idol gods renounce | J |
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| Now Satan thou hast lost thy aim | L |
| Against this brand thy threats are vain | M |
| JESUS has pluck'd it from the flame | L |
| And who shall put it in again | N |
John Newton
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