Hymn 31 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGFG HIJK LCLEChrist's presence makes death easy | A |
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Why should we start and fear to die | B |
What timorous worms we mortals are | C |
Death is the gate of endless joy | D |
And yet we dread to enter there | E |
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The pains the groans and dying strife | F |
Fright our approaching souls away | G |
Still we shrink back again to life | F |
Fond of our prison and our clay | G |
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O if my Lord would come and meet | H |
My soul should stretch her wings in haste | I |
Fly fearless through death's iron gate | J |
Nor feel the terrors as she passed | K |
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Jesus can make a dying bed | L |
Feel soft as downy pillows are | C |
While on his breast I lean my head | L |
And breathe my life out sweetly there | E |
Isaac Watts
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