Cain And Abel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GHGH IJIK LMNM OPOP QRSR ETUT| When Adam fell he quickly lost | A |
| God's image which he once possessed | B |
| See All our nature since could boast | C |
| In Cain his first born Son expressed | B |
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| The sacrifice the Lord ordained | D |
| In type of the Redeemer's blood | E |
| Self righteous reas'ning Cain disdained | D |
| And thought his own first fruits as good | F |
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| Yet rage and envy filled his mind | G |
| When with a fallen downcast look | H |
| He saw his brother favor find | G |
| Who God's appointed method took | H |
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| By Cain's own hand good Abel died | I |
| Because the Lord approved his faith | J |
| And when his blood for vengeance cried | I |
| He vainly thought to hide his death | K |
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| Such was the wicked murd'rer Cain | L |
| And such by nature still are we | M |
| Until by grace we're born again | N |
| Malicious blind and proud as he | M |
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| Like him the way of grace we slight | O |
| And in our own devices trust | P |
| Call evil good and darkness light | O |
| And hate and persecute the just | P |
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| The saints in every age and place | Q |
| Have found this history fulfilled | R |
| The numbers all our thoughts surpass | S |
| Of Abels whom the Cains have killed | R |
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| Thus Jesus fell but O his blood | E |
| Far better things than Abel's cries | T |
| Obtains his murd'rers peace with God | U |
| And gains them mansions in the skies | T |
John Newton
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