Psalm Cxlviii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBBBBBB CDEEFFGGHH IIJJKLBBMM NOPPGGQRST HHMMSUVVAA| Come oh come with sacred lays | A |
| Let us sound th' Almighty's praise | A |
| Hither bring in true concent | B |
| Heart and voice and instrument | B |
| Let the orpharion sweet | B |
| With the harp and viol meet | B |
| To your voices tune the lute | B |
| Let not tongue nor string be mute | B |
| Nor a creature dumb be found | B |
| That hath cither voice or sound | B |
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| Let such things as do not live | C |
| In still music praises give | D |
| Lowly pipe ye worms that creep | E |
| On the earth or in the deep | E |
| Loud aloft your voices strain | F |
| Beasts and monsters of the main | F |
| Birds your warbling treble sing | G |
| Clouds your peals of thunder ring | G |
| Sun and moon exalted higher | H |
| And you stars augment the choir | H |
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| Come ye sons of human race | I |
| In this chorus take your place | I |
| And amid this mortal throng | J |
| Be you masters of the song | J |
| Angels and celestial powers | K |
| Be the noblest tenor yours | L |
| Let in praise of God the sound | B |
| Run a never ending round | B |
| That our holy hymn may be | M |
| Everlasting as is He | M |
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| From the earth's vast hollow womb | N |
| Music's deepest bass shall come | O |
| Sea and floods from shore to shore | P |
| Shall the counter tenor roar | P |
| To this concert when we sing | G |
| Whistling winds your descant bring | G |
| Which may bear the sound above | Q |
| Where the orb of fire doth move | R |
| And so climb from sphere to sphere | S |
| Till our song th' Almighty hear | T |
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| So shall He from heaven's high tower | H |
| On the earth His blessing shower | H |
| All this huge wide orb we see | M |
| Shall one choir one temple be | M |
| There our voices we will rear | S |
| Till we fill it everywhere | U |
| And enforce the fiends that dwell | V |
| In the air to sink to hell | V |
| Then oh come with sacred lays | A |
| Let us sound th' Almighty's praise | A |
George Wither
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