Lamentations From Hell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDF GGGHIIAA GGGJGKGL MGNOPQRQ SSGGTTUU VWVWPQRQ GGTTXXYY GZJZA2B2C2C2 PRC2C2C2C2D2G TC2TC2C2C2C2C2| While sick I laid upon my bed | A |
| Death came knocking upon my door | B |
| I knew it was he when he peered | C |
| Though I'd never met him before | B |
| He came with clanging chains in hand | D |
| That dragged and trailed behind his tail | E |
| And with a beastly foot to stand | D |
| Was dressed again in black and wailed | F |
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| He wailed my life to take away | G |
| And burn me in hell he did say | G |
| For all my sins and trespasses | G |
| Wherein I reveled when I pleased | H |
| Wherefore I thought to scream and shout | I |
| To every one within and out | I |
| But when none at my voice would dread | A |
| I feared the thought that I was dead | A |
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| Then towards me he staggered thence | G |
| My soul to bind and steal away | G |
| The soul he bought for thirty pence | G |
| A price he professed to have paid | J |
| Oh how on earth was I careless | G |
| To let the thief my soul to steal | K |
| Oh how the hell was I godless | G |
| To let his lies my heart to fill | L |
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| Oh what a reckless way to live | M |
| Upon the wealth the devil gives | G |
| Upon the pleasures of the world | N |
| That never pleased the righteous God | O |
| The preacher said Jesus to serve | P |
| To turn to him with my whole heart | Q |
| But never would I for Him starve | R |
| Nor thirst would I for a fresh start | Q |
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| My life I lived to please the flesh | S |
| In sin and adultery afresh | S |
| Not finding water from my house | G |
| But stealing from another's spouse | G |
| Not fetching water from my well | T |
| But fetching from the depth of hell | T |
| How stolen water tastes sweeter | U |
| But lands in the stomach bitter | U |
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| Oh that I'd drank from my cistern | V |
| And let pure water fulfill me | W |
| Than drink from the sweet lake that burn | V |
| And have nobody to heal me | W |
| The preacher said Jesus to serve | P |
| To turn to him with my whole heart | Q |
| But never would I for him starve | R |
| Nor thirst would I for a fresh start | Q |
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| Now naked and clothed in rags | G |
| My soul to hell the devil drags | G |
| And now I feel the flames of hell | T |
| For by the smell I sure can tell | T |
| Bitterness shall now be my song | X |
| And I shall sing him all day long | X |
| My sorrow shall now know no bound | Y |
| Save some by it in hell is found | Y |
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| For all my sins shall now repay | G |
| The little lies and truth untold | Z |
| The wholesome debts and vows unpaid | J |
| The little truths and lies foretold | Z |
| The wrongful rights and bribes acclaimed | A2 |
| The malice borne and grudges kept | B2 |
| The hurtful words and curse exchanged | C2 |
| The decalogue and laws unkept | C2 |
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| The preacher said Jesus to serve | P |
| But never would I for him starve | R |
| To turn to him with my whole heart | C2 |
| Nor thirst would I for a fresh start | C2 |
| Let not your heart like mine be hard | C2 |
| Lest death strike and you loose your guard | C2 |
| Let not your heart be hard like mine | D2 |
| Nor despise the truth of these lines | G |
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| Now have I known the way to hell | T |
| Which I have trodden to this day | C2 |
| And also known life's Way to tell | T |
| For Jesus only is that Way | C2 |
| And though to hell I onward bound | C2 |
| And know not now what else to say | C2 |
| My cries shall evermore resound | C2 |
| That Jesus only is the way | C2 |
Christian Ken Israel
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