Looking Upwards In A Storm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG HHIJ FFKK LLMMGod of my life to Thee I call | A |
Afflicted at Thy feet I fall | A |
When the great water floods prevail | B |
Leave not my trembling heart to fail | B |
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Friend of the friendless and the faint | C |
Where should I lodge my deep complaint | C |
Where but with Thee whose open door | D |
Invites the helpless and the poor | E |
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Did ever mourner plead with Thee | F |
And Thou refuse the mourner's plea | F |
Does not the word still fix'd remain | G |
That none shall seek Thy face in vain | G |
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That were a grief I could not bear | H |
Didst Thou not hear and answer prayer | H |
But a prayer hearing answering God | I |
Supports me under every load | J |
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Fair is the lot that's cast for me | F |
I have an Advocate with Thee | F |
They whom the world caresses most | K |
Have no such privilege to boast | K |
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Poor though I am despised forgot | L |
Yet God my God forgets me not | L |
And he is safe and must succeed | M |
For whom the Lord vouchsafes to plead | M |
William Cowper
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