Hymn 107 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B BBCC DDEE FFAA GGBF HHII JJBB| The 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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