Psalms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDCEEFGHFBBIJJIK KLMMLNNBOOB APQPQRSKSS TBTBUVUVV WXWXAOAOO YZYZA2B2A2B2C2 PPPPA2A2VVV A E A2YD2E2D2E2A2A2CCCC F2 G2G2YA2A2YBBYA2A2Y E F2BF2BA2A2FCFC F2BBYA2A2YA2A2YH2I2Y| I | A |
| I seem to be | B |
| Sundered from Thee | B |
| Thou Harmony of all creation | C |
| Am I disowned | D |
| For talents loaned | D |
| And useless hid in vain probation | C |
| Now powerless | E |
| In weariness | E |
| Now in despair a beggar humble | F |
| For help for cheer | G |
| A voice an ear | H |
| To hear and guide while on I stumble | F |
| God let me be | B |
| Of use to Thee | B |
| If vain my purpose and my powers | I |
| Then sinks from sight | J |
| My star and night | J |
| Henceforth my steps enfolding lowers | I |
| Then break and bind | K |
| My ravaged mind | K |
| The terrors dread of doubt and anguish | L |
| I know the pack | M |
| I drove them back | M |
| Only to day does courage languish | L |
| Oh come now peace | N |
| Come faith's increase | N |
| That life's strong chain shall ever bind me | B |
| That not in vain | O |
| I strive and strain | O |
| Myself to seek until I find me | B |
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| II | A |
| Honor the springtide life ever adorning | P |
| That all things has made | Q |
| Things smallest have some resurrectional morning | P |
| The forms alone fade | Q |
| Life begets life | R |
| Potencies higher surprise | S |
| Kind begets kind | K |
| Heedless of time as it flies | S |
| Worlds pass away and arise | S |
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| Nothing so small but there's something still smaller | T |
| No one can see | B |
| Nothing so great but there's something still greater | T |
| Beyond it can be | B |
| Worms in the earth | U |
| Mountains to make they essay | V |
| Dust without worth | U |
| Sands with which sea billows play | V |
| Founders of kingdoms were they | V |
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| Infinite all where the smallest and greatest | W |
| Oneness unfold | X |
| No one has seen what was first and the latest | W |
| None shall behold | X |
| Laws underlie | A |
| Order the all they maintain | O |
| Need and supply | A |
| Bring one another our bane | O |
| Boots to the general gain | O |
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| Eternity's offspring and germ are we all now | Y |
| Thoughts have their true | Z |
| Roots in our race's first morning they fall now | Y |
| Query and clue | Z |
| Freighted with seed | A2 |
| Into eternity's soil | B2 |
| Joy be your meed | A2 |
| That your brief life's fleeting toil | B2 |
| Fruit for eternity bears | C2 |
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| Join in the joy of all life every being | P |
| Brief bloom of its spring | P |
| Honor th' eternal our human lot freeing | P |
| From fetters that cling | P |
| Adding your mite | A2 |
| With the eternal unite | A2 |
| Though you decay | V |
| Breathe as a moment you may | V |
| Air of eternity's day | V |
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| III | A |
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| CHORUS | E |
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| Who art | A2 |
| Thou | Y |
| whom a thousand names trace | D2 |
| Through all times that are gone and each tongue | E2 |
| Thou wert infinite yearning's embrace | D2 |
| Thou wert hope when the yoke heavy hung | E2 |
| Thou wert darkening death terror's guest | A2 |
| Thou wert sun that with life gladness blessed | A2 |
| Still Thine image we changefully fashion | C |
| And each form we would call revelation | C |
| Each man holds his for true with deep passion | C |
| Till it crumbles in poignant negation | C |
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| SOLO | F2 |
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| Who Thou art none can tell | G2 |
| But I know Thou dost dwell | G2 |
| As the limitless search in my soul it is Thou | Y |
| After justice and light | A2 |
| After victory's right | A2 |
| For the new that's revealed it is Thou it is Thou | Y |
| Every law that we see | B |
| Or believe there may be | B |
| Though we never can knowledge attain it is Thou | Y |
| As my armor and aid | A2 |
| Round my life they are laid | A2 |
| And with joy I avow it is Thou it is Thou | Y |
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| CHORUS | E |
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| Since we never Thine essence can know | F2 |
| We have thought mediators of Thee | B |
| But the ages their impotence show | F2 |
| We stand still while no way we can see | B |
| If in sickness for succor we thirst | A2 |
| Is there balm in the dreams that have burst | A2 |
| Stars of hope and of longing eternal | F |
| That we saw o'er life's sorrows arisen | C |
| Shall they sink in death's terrors nocturnal | F |
| Only turn into worms in our prison | C |
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| SOLO | F2 |
| He that liveth in me | B |
| Needeth no one to be | B |
| Mediator I own Him indeed it is Thou | Y |
| Is eternal hope prized | A2 |
| As from Him is baptized | A2 |
| By His spirit my own is it Thou is it Thou | Y |
| Shall not I who am dust | A2 |
| His eternity trust | A2 |
| I take humbly my law for I know it is Thou | Y |
| Was I worth Thy word Live | H2 |
| Let Thy life power give | I2 |
| When Thou wilt as Thou wilt it is Thou it is Thou | Y |
Bjarnstjerne Bjarnson
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