Ebenezer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFFFGHIH JKLKMFMF NONOPQPQ RSRSTUTU| The Lord our salvation and light | A |
| The guide of our strength and our days | B |
| Has brought us together to night | A |
| A new Ebenezer to raise | B |
| The year we have now passed through | C |
| His goodness with blessings has crown'd | D |
| Each morning his mercies were new | C |
| Then let our thanksgivings abound | D |
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| Encompass'd with dangers and snares | E |
| Temptations and fears and complaints | F |
| His ear he inclin'd to our pray'rs | F |
| His hand open'd wide to our wants | F |
| We never besought him in vain | G |
| When burden'd with sorrow or sin | H |
| He help'd us again and again | I |
| Or where before now had we been | H |
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| His Gospel throughout the long year | J |
| From Sabbath to Sabbath he gave | K |
| How oft has he met with us here | L |
| And shown himself mighty to save | K |
| His candlestick has been remov'd | M |
| From churches once privileg'd thus | F |
| But though we unworthy have prov'd | M |
| It still is continu'd to us | F |
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| For so many mercies receiv'd | N |
| Alas what returns have we made | O |
| His Spirit we often have griev'd | N |
| And evil for good have repaid | O |
| How well it becomes us to cry | P |
| Oh who is a God like to thee | Q |
| Who passest iniquities by | P |
| And plungest them deep in the sea | Q |
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| To Jesus who sits on the throne | R |
| Our best hallelujahs we bring | S |
| To thee it is owing alone | R |
| That we are permitted to sing | S |
| Assist us we pray to lament | T |
| The sins of the year that is past | U |
| And grant that the next may be spent | T |
| Far more to thy praise than the last | U |
John Newton
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