The Happy Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHEEII JJKKAA DDLLBBCCBBMMBBNNOOPP QQLLBBRRBBSSTT| How bless'd the man how fully so | A |
| As far as man is bless'd below | A |
| Who taking up his cross essays | B |
| To follow Jesus all his days | B |
| With resolution to obey | C |
| And steps enlarging in his way | C |
| The Father of the saints above | D |
| Adopts him with a Father's love | D |
| And makes his bosom throughly shine | E |
| With wond'rous stores of grace divine | E |
| Sweet grace divine the pledge of joy | F |
| That will his soul above employ | F |
| Full joy that when his time is done | G |
| Becomes his portion as a son | G |
| Ah me the sweet infus'd desires | H |
| The fervid wishes holy fires | H |
| Which thus a melted heart refine | E |
| Such are his and such be mine | E |
| From hence despising all besides | I |
| That earth reveals or ocean hides | I |
| All that men in either prize | J |
| On God alone he sets his eyes | J |
| From hence his hope is on the wings | K |
| His health renews his safety springs | K |
| His glory blazes up below | A |
| And all the streams of comfort flow | A |
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| He calls his Saviour King above | D |
| Lord of mercy Lord of love | D |
| And finds a kingly care defend | L |
| And mercy smile and love descend | L |
| To chear to guide him in the ways | B |
| Of this vain world's deceitful maze | B |
| And tho' the wicked earth display | C |
| Its terrors in their fierce array | C |
| Or gape so wide that horrour shews | B |
| Its hell replete with endless woes | B |
| Such succour keeps him clear of Ill | M |
| Still firm to good and dauntless still | M |
| So fix'd by Providence's hands | B |
| A rock amidst an ocean stands | B |
| So bears without a trembling dread | N |
| The tempest beating round its head | N |
| And with its side repels the wave | O |
| Whose hollow seems a coming grave | O |
| The skies the deeps are heard to roar | P |
| The rock stands settled as before | P |
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| I all with whom he has to do | Q |
| Admire the life which blesses you | Q |
| That feeds a foe that aids a friend | L |
| Without a bye designing end | L |
| Its knowing real int'rest lies | B |
| On the bright side of yonder skies | B |
| Where having made a title fair | R |
| It mounts and leaves the world to care | R |
| While he that seeks for pleasing days | B |
| In earthly joys and evil ways | B |
| Is but the fool of toil or fame | S |
| Tho' happy be the specious name | S |
| And made by wealth which makes him great | T |
| A more conspicuous wretch of state | T |
Thomas Parnell
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