Hymn 124 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDD EFGG HIJJ KCLM NNOP QQJF| The first and second Adam | A |
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| Rom etc | B |
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| Deep in the dust before thy throne | C |
| Our guilt and our disgrace we own | C |
| Great God we own th' unhappy name | D |
| Whence sprang our nature and our shame | D |
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| Adam the sinner at his fall | E |
| Death like a conqueror seized us | F |
| A thousand new born babes are dead | G |
| By fatal union to their head | G |
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| But whilst our spirits filled with awe | H |
| Behold the terrors of thy law | I |
| We sing the honors of thy grace | J |
| That sent to save our ruined race | J |
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| We sing thine everlasting Son | K |
| Who joined our nature to his own | C |
| Adam the second from the dust | L |
| Raises the ruins of the first | M |
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| By the rebellion of one man | N |
| Through all his seed the mischief ran | N |
| And by one man's obedience now | O |
| Are all his seed made righteous too | P |
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| Where sin did reign and death abound | Q |
| There have the sons of Adam found | Q |
| Abounding life there glorious grace | J |
| Reigns through the Lord our righteousness | F |
Isaac Watts
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