Simple Trust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGF HHGGGG IIJGGJ| Still still without ceasing | A |
| I feel it increasing | A |
| This fervour of holy desire | B |
| And often exclaim | C |
| Let me die in the flame | C |
| Of a love that can never expire | D |
| - | |
| Had I words to explain | E |
| What she must sustain | E |
| Who dies to the world and its ways | F |
| How joy and affright | G |
| Distress and delight | G |
| Alternately chequer her days | F |
| - | |
| Thou sweetly severe | H |
| I would make thee appear | H |
| In all thou art pleased to award | G |
| Not more in the sweet | G |
| Than the bitter I meet | G |
| My tender and merciful Lord | G |
| - | |
| This faith in the dark | I |
| Pursuing its mark | I |
| Through many sharp trials of love | J |
| Is the sorrowful waste | G |
| That is to be passed | G |
| On the way to the Canaan above | J |
William Cowper
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