Hymn 156 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFEG HIJI GCGC KGKG ILIM GNGNPresumption 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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