The Blasted Fig-tree Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HDID JKJL DDDD ICIC| One aweful word which Jesus spoke | A |
| Against the tree which bore no fruit | B |
| More piercing than the lightning's stroke | A |
| Blasted and dried it to the root | B |
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| But could a tree the Lord offend | C |
| To make him show his anger thus | D |
| He surely had a farther end | C |
| To be a warning word to us | D |
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| The fig tree by its leaves was known | E |
| But having not a fig to show | F |
| It brought a heavy sentence down | G |
| Let none hereafter on thee grow | F |
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| Too many who the gospel hear | H |
| Whom Satan blinds and sin deceives | D |
| We to this fig tree may compare | I |
| They yield no fruit but only leaves | D |
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| Knowledge and zeal and gifts and talk | J |
| Unless combined with faith and love | K |
| And witnessed by a gospel walk | J |
| Will not a true profession prove | L |
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| Without the fruit the Lord expects | D |
| Knowledge will make our state the worse | D |
| The barren trees he still rejects | D |
| And soon will blast them with his curse | D |
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| O Lord unite our hearts in prayer | I |
| On each of us thy Spirit send | C |
| That we the fruits of grace may bear | I |
| And find acceptance in the end | C |
John Newton
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