More With Us Than With Them Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF BBGHAlas Elisha's servant cried | A |
When he the Syrian army spied | A |
But he was soon released from care | B |
In answer to the prophet's prayer | B |
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Straitway he saw with other eyes | C |
A greater army from the skies | C |
A fiery guard around the hill | D |
Thus are the saints preserved still | D |
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When Satan and his host appear | E |
Like him of old I faint and fear | E |
Like him by faith with joy I see | F |
A greater host engaged for me | F |
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The saints espouse my cause by prayer | B |
The angels make my soul their care | B |
Mine is the promise sealed with blood | G |
And Jesus lives to make it good | H |
John Newton
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