Old-testament Gospel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFGHIJ KLMNOO PFPFQQ IRSRTT DUDURR| Israel in ancient days | A |
| Not only had a view | B |
| Of Sinai in a blaze | A |
| But learned the gospel too | B |
| The types and figures were a glass | C |
| In which they saw the Saviour's face | D |
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| The paschal sacrifice | E |
| And blood besprinkled door | F |
| Seen with enlightened eyes | G |
| And once applied with pow'r | H |
| Would teach the need of other blood | I |
| To reconcile an angry God | J |
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| The Lamb the Dove set forth | K |
| His perfect innocence | L |
| Whose blood of matchless worth | M |
| Should be the soul's defence | N |
| For he who can for sin atone | O |
| Must have no failings of his own | O |
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| The scape goat on his head | P |
| The peoples' trespass bore | F |
| And to the desert led | P |
| Was to be seen no more | F |
| In him our Surety seemed to say | Q |
| Behold I bear your sins away | Q |
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| Dipped in his fellows' blood | I |
| The living bird went free | R |
| The type well understood | S |
| Expressed the sinner's plea | R |
| Described a guilty soul enlarged | T |
| And by a Saviour's death discharged | T |
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| Jesus I love to trace | D |
| Throughout the sacred page | U |
| The footsteps of thy grace | D |
| The same in every age | U |
| O grant that I may faithful be | R |
| To clearer light vouchsafed to me | R |
John Newton
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