Elijah Fed By Ravens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJKJELEL MNMOJPQP FRFRSTST| Elijah's example declares | A |
| Whatever distress may betide | B |
| The saints may commit all their cares | A |
| To him who will surely provide | B |
| When rain long withheld from the earth | C |
| Occasioned a famine of bread | D |
| The prophet secure from the dearth | C |
| By ravens was constantly fed | D |
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| More likely to rob than to feed | E |
| Were ravens who live upon prey | F |
| But when the Lord's people have need | E |
| His goodness will find out a way | F |
| This instance to those may seem strange | G |
| Who know not how faith can prevail | H |
| But sooner all nature shall change | G |
| Than one of God's promises fail | H |
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| Nor is it a singular case | I |
| The wonder is often renewed | J |
| And many can say to his praise | K |
| He sends them by ravens their food | J |
| Thus worldlings though ravens indeed | E |
| Though greedy and selfish their mind | L |
| If God has a servant to feed | E |
| Against their own wills can be kind | L |
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| Thus Satan that raven unclean | M |
| Who croaks in the ears of the saints | N |
| Compelled by a power unseen | M |
| Administers oft to their wants | O |
| God teaches them how to find food | J |
| From all the temptations they feel | P |
| This raven who thirsts for my blood | Q |
| Has helped me to many a meal | P |
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| How safe and how happy are they | F |
| Who on the good Shepherd rely | R |
| He gives them out strength for their day | F |
| Their wants he will surely supply | R |
| He ravens and lions can tame | S |
| All creatures obey his command | T |
| Then let me rejoice in his name | S |
| And leave all my cares in his hand | T |
John Newton
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