Dwelling In Mesech Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHHH IJIJ CKCK LMLM NONO HPQP RSRS| What a mournful life is mine | A |
| Fill with crosses pains and cares | B |
| Every work defiled with sin | C |
| Every step beset with snares | B |
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| If alone I pensive fit | D |
| I myself can hardly bear | E |
| If I pass along the street | F |
| Sin and riot triumph there | E |
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| Jesus how my heart is pained | G |
| How it mourns for souls deceived | H |
| When I hear thy name profaned | H |
| When I see thy Spirit grieved | H |
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| When thy children's griefs I view | I |
| Their distress becomes my own | J |
| All I hear or see or do | I |
| Makes me tremble weep and groan | J |
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| Mourning thus I long had been | C |
| When I heard my Saviour's voice | K |
| Thou hast cause to mourn for sin | C |
| But in me thou may'st rejoice | K |
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| This kind word dispelled my grief | L |
| Put to silence my complaints | M |
| Though of sinners I am chief | L |
| He his ranked me with his saints | M |
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| Though constrained to dwell a while | N |
| Where the wicked strive and brawl | O |
| Let them frown so he but smile | N |
| Heav'n will make amends for all | O |
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| There believers we shall rest | H |
| Free from sorrow sin and fears | P |
| Nothing there our peace molests | Q |
| Through eternal rounds of years | P |
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| Let us then the fight endure | R |
| See our Captain looking down | S |
| He will make the conquest sure | R |
| And bestow the promised crown | S |
John Newton
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