The Acquiescence Of Pure Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK| Love if thy destined sacrifice am I | A |
| Come slay thy victim and prepare thy fires | B |
| Plunged in thy depths of mercy let me die | A |
| The death which every soul that lives desires | B |
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| I watch my hours and see them fleet away | C |
| The time is long that I have languished here | D |
| Yet all my thoughts thy purposes obey | C |
| With no reluctance cheerful and sincere | E |
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| To me 'tis equal whether love ordain | F |
| My life or death appoint me pain or ease | G |
| My soul perceives no real ill in pain | F |
| In ease or health no real good she sees | G |
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| One good she covets and that good alone | H |
| To choose thy will from selfish bias free | I |
| And to prefer a cottage to a throne | H |
| And grief to comfort if it pleases thee | I |
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| That we should bear the cross is thy command | J |
| Die to the world and live to self no more | K |
| Suffer unmoved beneath the rudest hand | J |
| As pleased when shipwrecked as when safe on shore | K |
William Cowper
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