The Convert's Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFGHHBBIIGFJJKKLL MMNNOO PPQQRRSSHH TTKKUU| Blessed Light of saints on high | A |
| Who fill the mansions of the sky | A |
| Sure defence whose mercy still | B |
| Preserves thy subjects here from ill | B |
| O my Jesus make me know | C |
| How to pay the thanks I owe | C |
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| As the fond sheep that id'ly strays | D |
| With wanton play thro' winding ways | D |
| Which never hits the road of home | E |
| O'er Wilds of danger learns to roam | E |
| 'Till weari'd out with idle fear | F |
| And passing there and turning here | G |
| He will for rest to covert run | H |
| And meet the wolf he wish'd to shun | H |
| Thus wretched I thro' wanton will | B |
| Run blind and headlong on in ill | B |
| 'Twas thus from sin to sin I flew | I |
| And thus I might have perish'd too | I |
| But mercy dropt the likeness here | G |
| And shew'd and sav'd me from my fear | F |
| While o'er the darkness of my mind | J |
| The sacred spirit purely shin'd | J |
| And mark'd and bright'ned all the way | K |
| Which leads to everlasting day | K |
| And broke the thick'ning clouds of sin | L |
| And fix'd the light of love within | L |
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| From hence my ravish'd soul aspires | M |
| And dates the rise of its desires | M |
| From hence to thee my God I turn | N |
| And fervent wishes say I burn | N |
| I burn thy glorious face to see | O |
| And live in endless joy with thee | O |
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| There's no such ardent kind of flame | P |
| Between the lover and the dame | P |
| Nor such affection parents bear | Q |
| To their young and only heir | Q |
| Tho' join'd together both conspire | R |
| And boast a doubled force of fire | R |
| My tender heart within its seat | S |
| Dissolves before the scorching heat | S |
| As soft'ning wax is taught to run | H |
| Before the warmness of the sun | H |
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| O my flame my pleasing pain | T |
| Burn and purify my stain | T |
| Warm me burn me day by day | K |
| 'Till you purge my earth away | K |
| 'Till at the last I throughly shine | U |
| And turn a torch of love divine | U |
Thomas Parnell
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