Watching Unto God In The Night Season (3) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FEFE EEEE GHGI GJGJ KDLD EMEM NONO PGPG EQEQ| Night how I love thy silent shades | A |
| My spirits they compose | B |
| The bliss of heaven my soul pervades | A |
| In spite of all my woes | B |
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| While sleep instils her poppy dews | C |
| In every slumbering eye | D |
| I watch to meditate and muse | C |
| In blest tranquillity | E |
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| And when I feel a God immense | F |
| Familiarly impart | E |
| With every proof he can dispense | F |
| His favour to my heart | E |
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| My native meanness I lament | E |
| Though most divinely filled | E |
| With all the ineffable content | E |
| That Deity can yield | E |
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| His purpose and his course he keeps | G |
| Treads all my reasonings down | H |
| Commands me out of nature's deeps | G |
| And hides me in his own | I |
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| When in the dust its proper place | G |
| Our pride of heart we lay | J |
| 'Tis then a deluge of his grace | G |
| Bears all our sins away | J |
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| Thou whom I serve and whose I am | K |
| Whose influence from on high | D |
| Refines and still refines my flame | L |
| And makes my fetters fly | D |
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| How wretched is the creature's state | E |
| Who thwarts thy gracious power | M |
| Crushed under sin's enormous weight | E |
| Increasing every hour | M |
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| The night when passed entire with thee | N |
| How luminous and clear | O |
| Then sleep has no delights for me | N |
| Lest thou should'st disappear | O |
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| My Saviour occupy me still | P |
| In this secure recess | G |
| Let reason slumber if she will | P |
| My joy shall not be less | G |
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| Let reason slumber out the night | E |
| But if thou deign to make | Q |
| My soul the abode of truth and light | E |
| Ah keep my heart awake | Q |
William Cowper
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