The Necessity Of Self-abasement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKJK LHBH MNMN OPOQ RSRS THTH UVWV XSXS RWRW| Source of love my brighter sun | A |
| Thou alone my comfort art | B |
| See my race is almost run | A |
| Hast thou left this trembling heart | B |
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| In my youth thy charming eyes | C |
| Drew me from the ways of men | D |
| Then I drank unmingled joys | E |
| Frown of thine saw never then | D |
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| Spouse of Christ was then my name | F |
| And devoted all to thee | G |
| Strangely jealous I became | F |
| Jealous of this self in me | G |
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| Thee to love and none beside | H |
| Was my darling sole employ | I |
| While alternately I died | H |
| Now of grief and now of joy | I |
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| Through the dark and silent night | J |
| On thy radiant smiles I dwelt | K |
| And to see the dawning light | J |
| Was the keenest pain I felt | K |
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| Thou my gracious teacher wert | L |
| And thine eye so close applied | H |
| While it watched thy pupil's heart | B |
| Seemed to look at none beside | H |
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| Conscious of no evil drift | M |
| This I cried is love indeed | N |
| 'Tis the giver not the gift | M |
| Whence the joys I feel proceed | N |
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| But soon humbled and laid low | O |
| Stript of all thou hast conferred | P |
| Nothing left but sin and woe | O |
| I perceived how I had erred | Q |
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| Oh the vain conceit of man | R |
| Dreaming of a good his own | S |
| Arrogating all he can | R |
| Though the Lord is good alone | S |
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| He the graces thou hast wrought | T |
| Makes subservient to his pride | H |
| Ignorant that one such thought | T |
| Passes all his sin beside | H |
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| Such his folly proved at last | U |
| By the loss of that repose | V |
| Self complacence cannot taste | W |
| Only love divine bestows | V |
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| 'Tis by this reproof severe | X |
| And by this reproof alone | S |
| His defects at last appear | X |
| Man is to himself made known | S |
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| Learn all earth that feeble man | R |
| Sprung from this terrestrial clod | W |
| Nothing is and nothing can | R |
| Life and power are all in God | W |
William Cowper
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