What Think Ye Of Christ? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFHIJIK LMNMOPQP RSRSTUTU VWVXYZYZ| What think you of Christ is the test | A |
| To try both your state and your scheme | B |
| You cannot be right in the rest | A |
| Unless you think rightly of him | C |
| As Jesus appears in your view | D |
| As he is beloved or not | E |
| So God is disposed to you | D |
| And mercy or wrath are your lot | E |
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| Some take him a creature to be | F |
| A man or an angel at most | G |
| Sure these have not feelings like me | F |
| Nor know themselves wretched and lost | H |
| So guilty so helpless am I | I |
| I durst not confide in his blood | J |
| Nor on his protection rely | I |
| Unless I were sure he is God | K |
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| Some call him a Saviour in word | L |
| But mix their own works with his plan | M |
| And hope he his help will afford | N |
| When they have done all that they can | M |
| If doings prove rather too light | O |
| A little they own they may fail | P |
| They purpose to make up full weight | Q |
| By casting his name in the scale | P |
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| Some style him the pearl of great price | R |
| And say he's the fountain of joys | S |
| Yet feed upon folly and vice | R |
| And cleave to the world and its toys | S |
| Like Judas the Saviour they kiss | T |
| And while they salute him betray | U |
| Ah what will profession like this | T |
| Avail in his terrible day | U |
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| If asked what of Jesus I think | V |
| Though still my best thoughts are but poor | W |
| I say he's my meat and my drink | V |
| My life and my strength and my store | X |
| My Shepherd my Husband my Friend | Y |
| My Saviour from sin and from thrall | Z |
| My hope from beginning to end | Y |
| My Portion my Lord and my All | Z |
John Newton
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