The Prayer Of Habakuk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACD EAFAGG ACACAA HIHICC AHAHJJ CCCKAA HCHCAA AGAGLM NONCCC FHFHCC ACACHH APAPAA PAPAQR PAPASSith afear'd | A |
When the times at fullest are | B |
Let thy work be then declar'd | A |
When the time Lord full doth grow | C |
Then in anger mercy shew | D |
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God Almightie he came downe | E |
Downe he came from Theman ward | A |
And the matchlesse Holy One | F |
From mount Paran forth appear'd | A |
Heaven o'erspreading with his rayes | G |
And earth filling with his praise | G |
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Sunne like was his glorious light | A |
From his side there did appeare | C |
Beaming rayes that shined bright | A |
And his pow'r he showed there | C |
Plagues before his face he sent | A |
At his feete hot coales there went | A |
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Where he stood he measure tooke | H |
Of the earth and view'd it well | I |
Nations vanisht at his looke | H |
Auncient hils to powder fell | I |
Mountaines old cast lower were | C |
For his waies eternal are | C |
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Cushan tents I saw diseas'd | A |
And the Midian curtaines quake | H |
Have the flouds Lord thee displeased | A |
Did the flouds thee angry make | H |
Was it else the sea that hath | J |
Thus prouoked thee to wrath | J |
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For thou rod'st thy horses there | C |
And thy saving charrets through | C |
Thou didst make thy bow appeare | C |
And thou didst performe thy vowe | K |
Yea thine oath and promise past | A |
To the tribes fulfilled hast | A |
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Through the earth thou riftes didst make | H |
And the riuers there did flow | C |
Mountaines seeing thee did shake | H |
And away the flouds did goe | C |
From the deepe a voyce was heard | A |
And his hands on high he rear'd | A |
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Both the sunne and moone made stay | A |
And remoud not in their spheares | G |
By thine arrowes' light went they | A |
By thy brightly shining speares | G |
Thou in wrath the lands did crush | L |
And in rage the nations thresh | M |
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For thy people's safe releefe | N |
With thy Christ for ayd went'st thou | O |
Thou hast also peirct their chiefe | N |
Of the sinfull household through | C |
And display'd them till made bare | C |
From the foote to necke they were | C |
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Thou with jauelines of their owne | F |
Didst their armies' leader strike | H |
For against me they came downe | F |
To deuoure me wherllwinde like | H |
And they ioy in nothing more | C |
Than vnseene to spoile the poore | C |
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Through the sea thou mad'st a way | A |
And didst ride thy horses there | C |
Where great heapes of water lay | A |
I the newes thereof did heare | C |
And the voyce my bowels shooke | H |
Yea my lips a quiv'ring tooke | H |
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Rottennesse my bones possest | A |
Trembling feare possessed me | P |
I that troublous day might rest | A |
For when his approches be | P |
Onward to the people made | A |
His strong troups will them invade | A |
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Bloomlesse shall the fig tree bee | P |
And the vine no fruit shall yeeld | A |
Fade shall then the oliue tree | P |
Meat shall none be in the field | A |
Neither in the fold or stall | Q |
Flock or heard continue shall | R |
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Yet the Lord my ioy shall be | P |
And in him I will delight | A |
In my God that saueth me | P |
God the Lord my only might | A |
Who my feet so guides that I | S |
Hinde like pace my places high | S |
George Wither
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