The Borrowed Axe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JKLK MNMO PQPQ RSRS| The prophets sons in time of old | A |
| Though to appearance poor | B |
| Were rich without possessing gold | A |
| And honoured though obscure | C |
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| In peace their daily bread they eat | D |
| By honest labor earned | E |
| While daily at Elisha's feet | D |
| They grace and wisdom learned | E |
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| The prophet's presence cheered their toil | F |
| They watched the words he spoke | G |
| Whether they turned the furrowed soil | F |
| Or felled the spreading oak | G |
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| Once as they listened to his theme | H |
| Their conference was stopped | I |
| For one beneath the yielding stream | H |
| A borrowed axe had dropped | I |
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| Alas it was not mine he said | J |
| How shall I make it good | K |
| Elisha heard and when he prayed | L |
| The iron swam like wood | K |
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| If God in such a small affair | M |
| A miracle performs | N |
| It shows his condescending care | M |
| Of poor unworthy worms | O |
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| Though kings and nations in his view | P |
| Are but as motes and dust | Q |
| His eye and ear are fixed on you | P |
| Who in his mercy trust | Q |
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| Not one concern of ours is small | R |
| If we belong to him | S |
| To teach us this the Lord of all | R |
| Once made the iron swim | S |
John Newton
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