Love Increased By Suffering Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKM NOPO QRQR SPSP TUTU VLWM| 'I love the Lord ' is still the strain | A |
| This heart delights to sing | B |
| But I reply your thoughts are vain | A |
| Perhaps 'tis no such thing | B |
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| Before the power of love divine | C |
| Creation fades away | D |
| Till only God is seen to shine | C |
| In all that we survey | D |
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| In gulfs of awful night we find | E |
| The God of our desires | F |
| 'Tis there he stamps the yielding mind | E |
| And doubles all its fires | F |
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| Flames of encircling love invest | G |
| And pierce it sweetly through | H |
| 'Tis filled with sacred joy yet pressed | G |
| With sacred sorrow too | H |
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| Ah love my heart is in the right | I |
| Amidst a thousand woes | J |
| To thee its ever new delight | I |
| And all its peace it owes | J |
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| Fresh causes of distress occur | K |
| Where'er I look or move | L |
| The comforts I to all prefer | K |
| Are solitude and love | M |
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| Nor exile I nor prison fear | N |
| Love makes my courage great | O |
| I find a Saviour every where | P |
| His grace in every state | O |
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| Nor castle walls nor dungeons deep | Q |
| Exclude his quickening beams | R |
| There I can sit and sing and weep | Q |
| And dwell on heavenly themes | R |
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| There sorrow for his sake is found | S |
| A joy beyond compare | P |
| There no presumptuous thoughts abound | S |
| No pride can enter there | P |
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| A Saviour doubles all my joys | T |
| And sweetens all my pains | U |
| His strength in my defence employs | T |
| Consoles me and sustains | U |
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| I fear no ill resent no wrong | V |
| Nor feel a passion move | L |
| When malice whets her slanderous tongue | W |
| Such patience is in love | M |
William Cowper
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