Hymn 133 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCD EFEG HIJK LMLM ENEO PQBQ| Love and charity | A |
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| Cor | B |
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| Let Pharisees of high esteem | C |
| Their faith and zeal declare | D |
| All their religion is a dream | C |
| If love be wanting there | D |
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| Love suffers long with patient eye | E |
| Nor is provoked in haste | F |
| She lets the present injury die | E |
| And long forgets the past | G |
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| Malice and rage those fires of hell | H |
| She quenches with her tongue | I |
| Hopes and believes and thinks no ill | J |
| Though she endure the wrong | K |
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| She nor desires nor seeks to know | L |
| The scandals of the time | M |
| Nor looks with pride on those below | L |
| Nor envies those that climb | M |
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| She lays her own advantage by | E |
| To seek her neighbor's good | N |
| So God's own Son came down to die | E |
| And bought our lives with blood | O |
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| Love is the grace that keeps her power | P |
| In all the realms above | Q |
| There faith and hope are known no more | B |
| But saints for ever love | Q |
Isaac Watts
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