Lovest Thou Me? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE GHGI JKJK LMNM OPQP RSRS TUTU VWVW| 'Tis a point I long to know | A |
| Oft it causes anxious thought | B |
| Do I love the Lord or no | A |
| Am I his or am I not | C |
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| If I love why am I thus | D |
| Why this dull and lifeless frame | E |
| Hardly sure can they be worse | F |
| Who have never heard his name | E |
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| Could my heart so hard remain | G |
| Prayer a task and burden prove | H |
| Every trifle give me pain | G |
| If I knew a Saviour's love | I |
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| When I turn my eyes within | J |
| All is dark and vain and wild | K |
| Filled with unbelief and sin | J |
| Can I deem myself a child | K |
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| If I pray or hear or read | L |
| Sin is mixed with all I do | M |
| You that love the Lord indeed | N |
| Tell me Is it thus with you | M |
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| Yet I mourn my stubborn will | O |
| Find my sin a grief and thrall | P |
| Should I grieve for what I feel | Q |
| If I did not love at all | P |
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| Could I joy his saints to meet | R |
| Choose the ways I once abhorred | S |
| Find at times the promise sweet | R |
| If I did not love the Lord | S |
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| Lord decide the doubtful case | T |
| Thou who art thy people's sun | U |
| Shine upon thy work of grace | T |
| If it be indeed begun | U |
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| Let me love thee more and more | V |
| If I love at all I pray | W |
| If I have not loved before | V |
| Help me to begin today | W |
John Newton
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