Love Constrained To Obedience Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FBFB GHGH BIBJ BKBK| No strength of nature can suffice | A |
| To serve the Lord aright | B |
| And what she has she misapplies | C |
| For want of clearer light | B |
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| How long beneath the law I lay | D |
| In bondage and distress | E |
| I toll'd the precept to obey | D |
| But toil'd without success | E |
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| Then to abstain from outward sin | F |
| Was more than I could do | B |
| Now if I feel its power within | F |
| I feel I hate it too | B |
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| Then all my servile works were done | G |
| A righteousness to raise | H |
| Now freely chosen in the Son | G |
| I freely choose His ways | H |
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| What shall I do was then the word | B |
| That I may worthier grow | I |
| What shall I render to the Lord | B |
| Is my inquiry now | J |
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| To see the law by Christ fulfilled | B |
| And hear His pardoning voice | K |
| Changes a slave into a child | B |
| And duty into choice | K |
William Cowper
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