Psalm Lvii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDE FCFCGH CCCCCC IJIJII CCCCCC| Lord grant oh grant me thy compassion | A |
| For I in thee my trust haue placed | B |
| Display thy wings for my saluation | A |
| Until my greefs are over passed | C |
| To thee I sue Oh God most high | D |
| To thee that canst all want supplie | E |
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| From their despights who seek to rend mee | F |
| Let help O Lord from heaven be daigned | C |
| And let thy truth and loue defend me | F |
| For I with lions am detained | C |
| With men inflam'd whose biting words | G |
| Are shafts and speares and naked swords | H |
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| Let over heauen God's praise be reared | C |
| And through the world his glorie showed | C |
| For they who netts for mee prepared | C |
| They who my soul to ground had bowed | C |
| Eu'n they within those trapps are caught | C |
| Which for my fall their hands had wrought | C |
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| Oh God my hart now ready maketh | I |
| My hart is for thy praise preparing | J |
| My tongue my harpe my lute awaketh | I |
| And I myselfe betimes vprearing | J |
| Will speak and sing in praise of thee | I |
| Where greatest throngs of people be | I |
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| For Lord thy mercies forth are stretched | C |
| As farr as are the sphears extended | C |
| Thy truth unto the clouds hath reached | C |
| And thou thyself art high ascended | C |
| Let still thy fame and praise Oh God | C |
| Through heauen and earth be spread abrode | C |
George Wither
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