Hymn 37 Part 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEE FGHH IIJJ KKLL HHMM NNBB OPII FGHHChrist's humiliation exaltation and triumph | A |
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Phil Mark Col | B |
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The mighty frame of glorious grace | C |
That brightest monument of praise | D |
That e'er the God of love designed | E |
Employs and fills my lab'ring mind | E |
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Begin my soul the heav'nly song | F |
A burden for an angel's tongue | G |
When Gabriel sounds these awful things | H |
He tunes and summons all his stungs | H |
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Proclaim inimitable love | I |
Jesus the Lord of worlds above | I |
Puts off the beams of bright array | J |
And veils the God in mortal clay | J |
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What black reproach defiled his name | K |
When with our sins he took our shame | K |
He whom adoring angels blessed | L |
Is made the impious rebel's jest | L |
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He that distributes crowns and thrones | H |
Hangs on a tree and bleeds and groans | H |
The Prince of Life resigns his breath | M |
The King of Glory bows to death | M |
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But see the wonders of his power | N |
He triumphs in his dying hour | N |
And while by Satan's rage he fell | B |
He dashed the rising hopes of hell | B |
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Thus were the hosts of death subdued | O |
And sin was drowned in Jesus' blood | P |
Thus he arose and reigns above | I |
And conquers sinners by his love | I |
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Who shall fulfil this boundless song | F |
The theme surmounts an angel's tongue | G |
How low how vain are mortal airs | H |
When Gabriel's nobler harp despairs | H |
Isaac Watts
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