The Bitter Waters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIHI JKLK MNMN OAOC PNPN QRQS| Beside the gospel pool | A |
| Appointed for the poor | B |
| From year to year my helpless soul | C |
| Has waited for a cure | D |
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| How often have I seen | E |
| The healing waters move | F |
| And others round me stepping in | G |
| Their efficacy prove | F |
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| But my complaints remain | H |
| I feel the very same | I |
| As full of guilt and fear and pain | H |
| As when at first I came | I |
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| O would the Lord appear | J |
| My malady to heal | K |
| He knows how long I've languished here | L |
| And what distress I feel | K |
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| How often have I thought | M |
| Why should I longer lie | N |
| Surely the mercy I have sought | M |
| Is not for such as I | N |
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| But whither can I go | O |
| There is no other pool | A |
| Where streams of sovereign virtue flow | O |
| To make a sinner whole | C |
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| Here then from day to day | P |
| I'll wait and hope and try | N |
| Can Jesus hear a sinner pray | P |
| Yet suffer him to die | N |
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| No he is full of grace | Q |
| He never will permit | R |
| A soul that fain would see his face | Q |
| To perish at his feet | S |
John Newton
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