Love-tokens Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FFFF GHGI JKJL MNMN OPQR IFIF| Afflictions do not come alone | A |
| A voice attends the rod | B |
| By both he to his saints is known | A |
| A Father and a God | B |
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| Let not my children slight the stroke | C |
| I for chastisement send | D |
| Nor faint beneath my kind rebuke | E |
| For still I am their friend | D |
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| The wicked I perhaps may leave | F |
| Awhile and not reprove | F |
| But all the children I receive | F |
| I scourge because I love | F |
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| If therefore you were left without | G |
| This needful discipline | H |
| You might with cause admit a doubt | G |
| If you indeed were mine | I |
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| Shall earthly parents then expect | J |
| Their children to submit | K |
| And wilt not you when I correct | J |
| Be humbled at my feet | L |
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| To please themselves they oft chastise | M |
| And put their sons to pain | N |
| But you are precious in my eyes | M |
| And shall not smart in vain | N |
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| I see your hearts at present filled | O |
| With grief and deep distress | P |
| But soon these bitter seeds shall yield | Q |
| The fruits of righteousness | R |
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| Break through the clouds dear Lord and shine | I |
| Let us perceive thee nigh | F |
| And to each mourning child of thine | I |
| These gracious words apply | F |
John Newton
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