Pleading For And With Youth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED AFAF GHIH JKLM CNEO| Sin has undone our wretched race | A |
| But Jesus has restored | B |
| And brought the sinner face to face | A |
| With his forgiving Lord | B |
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| This we repeat from year to year | C |
| And press upon our youth | D |
| Lord give them an attentive ear | E |
| Lord save them by Thy truth | D |
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| Blessings upon the rising race | A |
| Make this a happy hour | F |
| According to Thy richest grace | A |
| And thine Almighty power | F |
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| We feel for your unhappy state | G |
| May you regard it too | H |
| And would a while ourselves forget | I |
| To pour our prayer for you | H |
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| We see though you perceive it not | J |
| The approaching awful doom | K |
| Oh tremble at the solemn thought | L |
| And flee the wrath to come | M |
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| Dear Saviour let this new born year | C |
| Spread an alarm abroad | N |
| And cry in every careless ear | E |
| Prepare to meet thy God | O |
William Cowper
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