Martha And Mary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG HIJJ KKLM NNOO PQRR| Martha her love and joy expressed | A |
| By care to entertain her guest | A |
| While Mary sat to hear her Lord | B |
| And could not bear to lose a word | C |
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| The principle in both the same | D |
| Produced in each a different aim | D |
| The one to feast the Lord was led | E |
| The other waited to be fed | E |
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| But Mary chose the better part | F |
| Her Saviour's words refreshed her heart | F |
| While busy Martha angry grew | G |
| And lost her time and temper too | G |
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| With warmth she to her sister spoke | H |
| But brought upon herself rebuke | I |
| One thing is needful and but one | J |
| Why do thy thoughts on many run | J |
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| How oft are we like Martha vexed | K |
| Encumbered hurried and perplexed | K |
| While trifles so engross our thought | L |
| The one thing needful is forgot | M |
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| Lord teach us this one thing to choose | N |
| Which they who gain can never lose | N |
| Sufficient in itself alone | O |
| And needful were the world our own | O |
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| Let groveling hearts the world admire | P |
| Thy love is all that I require | Q |
| Gladly I may the rest resign | R |
| If the one needful thing be mine | R |
John Newton
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