Hymn 156 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEG HIJI GCGC KGKG ILIM GNGN| Presumption and despair or Satan's various temptations | A |
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| I hate the tempter and his charms | B |
| I hate his flatt'ring breath | C |
| The serpent takes a thousand forms | D |
| To cheat our souls to death | C |
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| He feeds our hopes with airy dreams | E |
| Or kills with slavish fear | F |
| And holds us still in wide extremes | E |
| Presumption or despair | G |
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| Now he persuades How easy 'tis | H |
| To walk the road to heav'n | I |
| Anon he swells our sins and cries | J |
| They cannot be forgiv'n | I |
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| He bids young sinners yet forbear | G |
| To think of God or death | C |
| For prayer and devotion are | G |
| But melancholy breath | C |
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| He tells the aged they must die | K |
| And 'tis too late to pray | G |
| In vain for mercy now they cry | K |
| For they have lost their day | G |
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| Thus he supports his cruel throne | I |
| By mischief and deceit | L |
| And drags the sons of Adam down | I |
| To darkness and the pit | M |
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| Almighty God cut short his power | G |
| Let him in darkness dwell | N |
| And that he vex the earth no more | G |
| Confine him down to hell | N |
Isaac Watts
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