The Inward Warfare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHIC JKJLAA MNMNOP AQAQRR| Strange and mysterious is my life | A |
| What opposites I feel within | B |
| A stable peace a constant strife | A |
| The rule of grace the pow'r of sin | B |
| Too often I am captive led | C |
| Yet daily triumph in my Head | C |
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| I prize the privilege of prayer | D |
| But o what backwardness to pray | E |
| Though on the Lord I cast my care | D |
| I feel its burden every day | E |
| I seek his will in all I do | F |
| Yet find my own is working too | F |
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| I call the promises my own | G |
| And prize them more than mines of gold | H |
| Yet though their sweetness I have known | G |
| They leave me unimpressed and cold | H |
| One hour upon the truth I feed | I |
| The next I know not what I read | C |
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| I love the holy day of rest | J |
| When Jesus meets his gathered saints | K |
| Sweet day of all the week the best | J |
| For its return my spirit pants | L |
| Yet often through my unbelief | A |
| It proves a day of guilt and grief | A |
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| While on my Saviour I rely | M |
| I know my foes shall loose their aim | N |
| And therefore dare their pow'r defy | M |
| Assured of conquest through his name | N |
| But soon my confidence is slain | O |
| And all my fears return again | P |
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| Thus different pow'rs within me strive | A |
| And grace and sin by turns prevail | Q |
| I grieve rejoice decline revive | A |
| And vict'ry hangs in doubtful scale | Q |
| But Jesus has his promise passed | R |
| That grace shall overcome at last | R |
John Newton
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