The Good Physician Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFGFHIHI JKJKCLCL AMAMNONO PQPRASAT| How lost was my condition | A |
| Till Jesus made me whole | B |
| There is but one Physician | A |
| Can cure a sin sick soul | B |
| Next door to death he found me | C |
| And snatched me from the grave | D |
| To tell to all around me | C |
| His wondrous pow'r to save | D |
| - | |
| The worst of all diseases | E |
| Is light compared with sin | F |
| On every part it seizes | G |
| But rages most within | F |
| 'Tis palsy plague and fever | H |
| And madness all combined | I |
| And none but a believer | H |
| The least relief can find | I |
| - | |
| From men great skill professing | J |
| I thought a cure to gain | K |
| But this proved more distressing | J |
| And added to my pain | K |
| Some said that nothing ailed me | C |
| Some gave me up for lost | L |
| Thus every refuge failed me | C |
| And all my hopes were crossed | L |
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| At length this great Physician | A |
| How matchless is his grace | M |
| Accepted my petition | A |
| And undertook my case | M |
| First gave me sight to view him | N |
| For sin my eyes had sealed | O |
| Then bid me look unto him | N |
| I looked and I was healed | O |
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| A dying risen Jesus | P |
| Seen by the eye of faith | Q |
| At once from danger frees us | P |
| And saves the soul from death | R |
| Come then to this Physician | A |
| His help he'll freely give | S |
| He makes no hard condition | A |
| 'Tis only look and live | T |
John Newton
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