His Saviour's Words Going To The Cross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BCB DDE FFG HIIHave have ye no regard all ye | A |
Who pass this way to pity Me | A |
Who am a man of misery | A |
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A man both bruis'd and broke and one | B |
Who suffers not here for Mine own | C |
But for My friends' transgression | B |
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Ah Sion's daughters do not fear | D |
The cross the cords the nails the spear | D |
The myrrh the gall the vinegar | E |
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For Christ your loving Saviour hath | F |
Drunk up the wine of God's fierce wrath | F |
Only there's left a little froth | G |
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Less for to taste than for to show | H |
What bitter cups had been your due | I |
Had He not drank them up for you | I |
Robert Herrick
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