Out Of The Depths Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI BJBJ KLKL GMGM BNBN| Thou art and therefore Thou art near oh God | A |
| Thick darkness covers me I cannot see | B |
| Is this the Shepherd's crook or the correcting rod | A |
| And by Thy hand O Father laid on me | B |
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| I cry to Thee and shall I cry in vain | C |
| My soul looks up as if through prison bars | D |
| Up through the silent Heaven ah turn again | E |
| Thy face to me hide not behind the stars | D |
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| Thy presence hath been with me in the past | F |
| Where heaps of witness mark out all the way | G |
| Thy years change not Thy love is still as vast | F |
| I look to Thee I trust Thee though Thou slay | G |
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| My friends walk on the hills the sun hath kissed | H |
| Flowers at their feet their sky is blue and fair | I |
| I'm prisoned in this vale of tearful mist | H |
| Shut in with sorrow darkened by despair | I |
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| I too once walked with footsteps glad and free | B |
| Light round my head and in my mouth a song | J |
| Manna fell round my dwelling place for me | B |
| For me the living waters flowed along | J |
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| Thy hand had set my feet upon a rock | K |
| That Rock stands fast why then this loss and harm | L |
| I cannot find the footsteps of the flock | K |
| I cannot feel the Well Beloved's arm | L |
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| They hold me in derision for they say | G |
| Where is the God in whom you seemed to trust | M |
| Righteous art Thou O Lord and if I may | G |
| But find Thee I will lay me in the dust | M |
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| Saying awake arise my God to me | B |
| Turn in Thy love the mercy of Thy face | N |
| Then shall the day break and the shadows flee | B |
| And I will sing of Thy sufficient grace | N |
Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)
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