Plenty In A Time Of Dearth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BBBB CDDD BEBE FGFG BHBI JBJB| My soul once had its plenteous years | A |
| And throve with peace and comfort filled | B |
| Like the fat kine and ripened ears | A |
| Which Pharaoh in his dream beheld | B |
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| With pleasing frames and grace received | B |
| With means and ordinances fed | B |
| How happy for a while I lived | B |
| And little feared the want of bread | B |
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| But famine came and left no sign | C |
| Of all the plenty I had seen | D |
| Like the dry ears and half starved kine | D |
| I then looked withered faint and lean | D |
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| To Joseph the Egyptians went | B |
| To Jesus I made known my case | E |
| He when my little stock was spent | B |
| Opened his magazine of grace | E |
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| For he the time of dearth foresaw | F |
| And made provision long before | G |
| That famished souls like me might draw | F |
| Supplies from his unbounded store | G |
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| Now on his bounty I depend | B |
| And live from fear of dearth secure | H |
| Maintained by such a mighty friend | B |
| I cannot want till he is poor | I |
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| O sinners hear his gracious call | J |
| His mercy's door stands open wide | B |
| He has enough to feed you all | J |
| And none who come shall be denied | B |
John Newton
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