A Child My Choice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BC AA AA BD EE FF GG| Let folly praise that fancy loves I praise and love that Child | A |
| Whose heart no thought whose tongue no word whose hand no deed defiled | A |
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| I praise Him most I love Him best all praise and love is His | B |
| While Him I love in Him I live and cannot live amiss | C |
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| Love's sweetest mark laud's highest theme man's most desired light | A |
| To love Him life to leave Him death to live in Him delight | A |
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| He mine by gift I His by debt thus each to other due | A |
| First friend He was best friend He is all times will try Him true | A |
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| Though young yet wise though small yet strong though man yet God He is | B |
| As wise He knows as strong He can as God He loves to bless | D |
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| His knowledge rules His strength defends His love doth cherish all | E |
| His birth our joy His life our light His death our end of thrall | E |
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| Alas He weeps He sighs He pants yet do His angels sing | F |
| Out of His tears His sighs and throbs doth bud a joyful spring | F |
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| Almighty Babe whose tender arms can force all foes to fly | G |
| Correct my faults protect my life direct me when I die | G |
Robert Southwell
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