A Friend That Sticketh Closer Than A Brother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEGHH IJIJKK HLHLMM NENEOO PDPDHH| One there is above all others | A |
| Well deserves the name of friend | B |
| His is love beyond a brother's | A |
| Costly free and knows no end | B |
| They who once his kindness prove | C |
| Find it everlasting love | D |
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| Which of all our friends to save us | E |
| Could or would have shed their blood | F |
| But our Jesus died to have us | E |
| Reconciled in him to God | G |
| This was boundless love indeed | H |
| Jesus is a friend in need | H |
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| Men when raised to lofty stations | I |
| Often know their friends no more | J |
| Slight and scorn their poor relations | I |
| Though they valued them before | J |
| But our Saviour always owns | K |
| Those whom he redeemed with groans | K |
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| When he lived on earth abased | H |
| Friend of sinners was his name | L |
| Now above all glory raised | H |
| He rejoices in the same | L |
| Still he calls them brethren friends | M |
| And to all their wants attends | M |
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| Could we bear from one another | N |
| What he daily bears from us | E |
| Yet this glorious Friend and Brother | N |
| Loves us though we treat him thus | E |
| Though for good we render ill | O |
| He accounts us brethren still | O |
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| O for grace our hearts to soften | P |
| Teach us Lord at length to love | D |
| We alas forget too often | P |
| What a Friend we have above | D |
| But when home our souls are brought | H |
| We will love thee as we ought | H |
John Newton
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