Will Ye Also Go Away? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKLK MNMN OEOE| When any turn from Zion's way | A |
| Alas what numbers do | B |
| Methinks I hear my Saviour say | A |
| Wilt thou forsake me too | B |
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| Ah Lord with such a heart as mine | C |
| Unless thou hold me fast | D |
| I feel I must I shall decline | C |
| And prove like them at last | D |
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| Yet thou alone hast pow'r I know | E |
| To save a wretch like me | F |
| To whom or whither could I go | E |
| If I should turn from thee | F |
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| Beyond a doubt I rest assured | G |
| Thou art the Christ of God | H |
| Who hast eternal life secured | G |
| By promise and by blood | I |
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| The help of men and angels joined | J |
| Could never reach my case | K |
| Nor can I hope relief to find | L |
| But in thy boundless grace | K |
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| No voice but thine can give me rest | M |
| And bid my fears depart | N |
| No love but thine can make me blest | M |
| And satisfy my heart | N |
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| What anguish has that question stirred | O |
| If I will also go | E |
| Yet Lord relying on thy word | O |
| I humbly answer No | E |
John Newton
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