Satan Returning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIJI KLKL MNMO PQRQ| When Jesus claims the sinner's heart | A |
| Where Satan ruled before | B |
| The evil spirit must depart | A |
| And dares return no more | B |
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| But when he goes without constraint | C |
| And wanders from his home | D |
| Although withdrawn 'tis but a feint | C |
| He means again to come | E |
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| Some outward change perhaps is seen | F |
| If Satan quit the place | G |
| But though the house seem swept and clean | F |
| 'Tis destitute of grace | G |
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| Except the Saviour dwell and reign | H |
| Within the sinner's mind | I |
| Satan when he returns again | J |
| Will easy entrance find | I |
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| With rage and malice sevenfold | K |
| He then resumes his sway | L |
| No more by checks to be controlled | K |
| No more to go away | L |
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| The sinner's former state was bad | M |
| But worse the latter far | N |
| He lives possessed and blind and mad | M |
| And dies in dark despair | O |
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| Lord save me from this dreadful end | P |
| And from this heart of mine | Q |
| O drive and keep away the fiend | R |
| Who fears no voice but thine | Q |
John Newton
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