Hymn 107 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B BBCC DDEE FFAA GGBF HHII JJBBThe fall and recovery of man or Christ and Satan at enmity | A |
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Gen Gal Col | B |
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Deceived by subtle snares of hell | B |
Adam our head our father fell | B |
When Satan in the serpent hid | C |
Proposed the fruit that God forbid | C |
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Death was the threat'ning death began | D |
To take possession of the man | D |
His unborn race received the wound | E |
And heavy curses smote the ground | E |
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But Satan found a worse reward | F |
Thus saith the vengeance of the Lord | F |
quot Let everlasting hatred be | A |
Betwixt the woman's seed and thee | A |
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quot The woman's seed shall be my Son | G |
He shall destroy what thou hast done | G |
Shall break thy head and only feel | B |
Thy malice raging at his heel quot | F |
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He spake and bid four thousand years | H |
Roll on at length his Son appears | H |
Angels with joy descend to earth | I |
And sing the young Redeemer's birth | I |
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Lo by the sons of hell he dies | J |
But as he hung 'twixt earth and skies | J |
He gave their prince a fatal blow | B |
And triumphed o'er the powers below | B |
Isaac Watts
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