A Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFEGHI JKJKLL| Oh thou great Power in whom I move | A |
| For whom I live to whom I die | B |
| Behold me through thy beams of love | C |
| Whilst on this couch of tears I lie | B |
| And cleanse my sordid soul within | D |
| By thy Christ's blood the bath of sin | D |
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| No hallowed oyls no grains I need | E |
| No rags of saints no purging fire | F |
| One rosie drop from David's seed | E |
| Was worlds of seas to quench thine ire | G |
| O precious ran some which once paid | H |
| That Conmminatum est was said | I |
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| And said by Him that said no more | J |
| But seal'd it with his sacred breath | K |
| Thou then that has dispong'd my score | J |
| And dying wast the death of Death | K |
| Be to me now on thee I call | L |
| My life my strength my joy my all | L |
Sir Henry Wotton
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