Lively Hope And Gracious Fear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGH IJIJ KLML NOPQ| I was a grovelling creature once | A |
| And basely cleaved to earth | B |
| I wanted spirit to renounce | C |
| The clod that gave me birth | B |
| - | |
| But God hath breathed upon a worm | D |
| And sent me from above | E |
| Wings such as clothe an angel's form | F |
| The wings of joy and love | E |
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| With these to Pisgah's top I fly | G |
| And there delighted stand | H |
| To view beneath a shining sky | G |
| The spacious promised land | H |
| - | |
| The Lord of all the vast domain | I |
| Has promised it to me | J |
| The length and breadth of all the plain | I |
| As far as faith can see | J |
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| How glorious is my privilege | K |
| To Thee for help I call | L |
| I stand upon a mountain's edge | M |
| O save me lest I fall | L |
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| Though much exalted in the Lord | N |
| My strength is not my own | O |
| Then let me tremble at His word | P |
| And none shall cast me down | Q |
William Cowper
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