A Sick Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN| Physician of my sin sick soul | A |
| To thee I bring my case | B |
| My raging malady control | A |
| And heal me by thy grace | B |
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| Pity the anguish I endure | C |
| See how I mourn and pine | D |
| For never can I hope a cure | C |
| From any hand but thine | D |
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| I would disclose my whole complaint | E |
| But where shall I begin | F |
| No words of mine can fully paint | E |
| That worst distemper sin | F |
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| It lies not in a single part | G |
| But through my frame is spread | H |
| A burning fever in my heart | G |
| A palsy in my head | H |
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| It makes me deaf and dumb and blind | I |
| And impotent and lame | J |
| And overclouds and fills my mind | I |
| With folly fear and shame | J |
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| A thousand evil thoughts intrude | K |
| Tumultuous in my breast | L |
| Which indispose me for my food | K |
| And rob me of my rest | L |
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| Lord I am sick regard my cry | M |
| And set my spirit free | N |
| Say canst thou let a sinner die | M |
| Who longs to live to thee | N |
John Newton
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