My Grace Is Sufficient For Thee Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGH IIJK LLMM NNDD| Oppressed with unbelief and sin | A |
| Fightings without and fears within | A |
| While earth and hell with force combined | B |
| Assault and terrify my mind | B |
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| What strength have I against such foes | C |
| Such hosts and legions to oppose | C |
| Alas I tremble faint and fall | D |
| Lord save me or I give up all | D |
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| Thus sorely pressed I sought the Lord | E |
| To give me some sweet cheering word | F |
| Again I sought and yet again | G |
| I waited long but not in vain | H |
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| O 'twas a cheering word indeed | I |
| Exactly suited to my need | I |
| Sufficient for thee is my grace | J |
| Thy weakness my great pow'r displays | K |
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| Now despond and mourn no more | L |
| I welcome all I feared before | L |
| Though weak I'm strong though troubled blest | M |
| For Christ's own pow'r shall on me rest | M |
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| My grace would soon exhausted be | N |
| But his is boundless as the sea | N |
| Then let me boast with holy Paul | D |
| That I am nothing Christ is all | D |
John Newton
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