The Wheat And Tares Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFF GGHI JJKK LLMM NNOO| Though in the outward church below | A |
| The wheat and tares together grow | A |
| Jesus ere long will weed the crop | B |
| And pluck the tares in anger up | C |
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| Will it relieve their horrors there | D |
| To recollect their stations here | E |
| How much they heard how much they knew | F |
| How long amongst the wheat they grew | F |
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| O this will aggravate their case | G |
| They perished under means of grace | G |
| To them the word of life and faith | H |
| Became an instrument of death | I |
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| We seem alike when thus we meet | J |
| Strangers might think we all are wheat | J |
| But to the Lord's all searching eyes | K |
| Each heart appears without disguise | K |
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| The tares are spared for various ends | L |
| Some for the sake of praying friends | L |
| Others the Lord against their will | M |
| Employs his counsels to fulfill | M |
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| But though they grow so tall and strong | N |
| His plan will not require them long | N |
| In harvest when he saves his own | O |
| The tares shall into hell be thrown | O |
John Newton
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