When All Thy Mercies, O My God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DDED FGDH IDDD JKLK MENE OHDH PQDR STDT UVWV XYZY DRDR A2BDB| When all Thy mercies O my God | A |
| My rising soul surveys | B |
| Transported with the view I m lost | C |
| In wonder love and praise | B |
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| Thy Providence my life sustained | D |
| And all my wants redressed | D |
| While in the silent womb I lay | E |
| And hung upon the breast | D |
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| To all my weak complaints and cries | F |
| Thy mercy lent an ear | G |
| Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learned | D |
| To form themselves in prayer | H |
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| Unnumbered comforts to my soul | I |
| Thy tender care bestowed | D |
| Before my infant heart conceived | D |
| From Whom those comforts flowed | D |
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| When in the slippery paths of youth | J |
| With heedless steps I ran | K |
| Thine arm unseen conveyed me safe | L |
| And led me up to man | K |
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| Through hidden dangers toils and deaths | M |
| It gently cleared my way | E |
| And through the pleasing snares of vice | N |
| More to be feared than they | E |
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| O how shall words with equal warmth | O |
| The gratitude declare | H |
| That glows within my ravished heart | D |
| But thou canst read it there | H |
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| Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss | P |
| Hath made my cup run o er | Q |
| And in a kind and faithful Friend | D |
| Hath doubled all my store | R |
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| Ten thousand thousand precious gifts | S |
| My daily thanks employ | T |
| Nor is the last a cheerful heart | D |
| That tastes those gifts with joy | T |
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| When worn with sickness oft hast Thou | U |
| With health renewed my face | V |
| And when in sins and sorrows sunk | W |
| Revived my soul with grace | V |
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| Through every period of my life | X |
| Thy goodness I ll pursue | Y |
| And after death in distant worlds | Z |
| The glorious theme renew | Y |
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| When nature fails and day and night | D |
| Divide Thy works no more | R |
| My ever grateful heart O Lord | D |
| Thy mercy shall adore | R |
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| Through all eternity to Thee | A2 |
| A joyful song I ll raise | B |
| For oh eternity s too short | D |
| To utter all Thy praise | B |
Joseph Addison
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