The Straying Sheep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDED FGHG FIJIKHKH FGHG FLMLFBNB FGHG AHAHKOPG FGHG| How many sheep are straying | A |
| Lost from the Savior's fold | B |
| Upon the lonely mountain They shiver with the cold | B |
| Within the tangled thickets | C |
| Where poison vines do creep | D |
| And over rocky ledges | E |
| Still roam the poor lost sheep | D |
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| O come let us go and find them | F |
| In the paths of death they roam | G |
| At the close of the day 'twill be sweet to say | H |
| I have brought some lost one home | G |
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| O who will go to find them | F |
| Who for the Savior's sake | I |
| Will search with tireless patience | J |
| Through brier and through brake | I |
| Unheeding thirst or hunger | K |
| Who still from day to day | H |
| Will seek as for treasure | K |
| The sheep that go astray | H |
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| O come let us go and find them | F |
| In the paths of death they roam | G |
| At the close of the day 'twill be sweet to say | H |
| I have brought some lost one home | G |
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| Say will you seek to find them | F |
| From pleasant bow'rs of ease | L |
| Will you go forth determined | M |
| To find the least of these | L |
| For still the Savior calls them | F |
| And looks across the wold | B |
| And still He holds wide open | N |
| The door into His fold | B |
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| O come let us go and find them | F |
| In the paths of death they roam | G |
| At the close of the day 'twill be sweet to say | H |
| I have brought some lost one home | G |
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| How sweet 'twound be at evening | A |
| If you and I could say | H |
| Good Shepherd we've been seeking | A |
| The sheep that went astray | H |
| Heartsore and faint with hunger | K |
| We heard them making moan | O |
| And lo we come at nightfall | P |
| And bear them safely home | G |
| - | |
| O come let us go and find them | F |
| In the paths of death they roam | G |
| At the close of the day 'twill be sweet to say | H |
| I have brought some lost one home | G |
Robert Wadsworth Lowry
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