Walking With God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIJI KLKL MMMM NONO| By faith in Christ I walk with God | A |
| With heav'n my journeys' end in view | B |
| Supported by his staff and rod | A |
| My road is safe and pleasant too | B |
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| I travel through a desert wide | C |
| Where many round me blindly stray | D |
| But He vouchsafes to be my guide | C |
| And will not let me miss my way | D |
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| Though snares and dangers throng my path | E |
| And earth and hell my course withstand | F |
| I triumph over all by faith | G |
| Guarded by his Almighty hand | F |
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| The wilderness affords no food | H |
| But God for my support prepares | I |
| Provides me every needful good | J |
| And frees my soul from wants and cares | I |
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| With him sweet converse I maintain | K |
| Great as he is I dare be free | L |
| I tell him all my grief and pain | K |
| And he reveals his love to me | L |
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| Some cordial from his word he brings | M |
| Whene'er my feeble spirit faints | M |
| At once my soul revives and sings | M |
| And yields no more to sad complaints | M |
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| I pity all that worldlings talk | N |
| Of pleasures that will quickly end | O |
| Be this my choice O Lord to walk | N |
| With thee my Guide my Guard my Friend | O |
John Newton
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