Hymn 75 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDD EEFF GGBB BBBB HHIJ KKGG BBLL DDMM BBBB NNOOThe description of Christ the beloved | A |
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SS | B |
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The wond'ring world inquires to know | C |
Why I should love my Jesus so | C |
What are his charms say they above | D |
The objects of a mortal love | D |
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Yes my Beloved to my sight | E |
Shows a sweet mixture red and white | E |
All human beauties all divine | F |
In my Beloved meet and shine | F |
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White is his soul from blemish free | G |
Red with the blood he shed for me | G |
The fairest of ten thousand fairs | B |
A sun amongst ten thousand stars | B |
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His head the finest gold excels | B |
There wisdom in perfection dwells | B |
And glory like a crown adorns | B |
Those temples once beset with thorns | B |
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Compassion's in his heart are found | H |
Hard by the signals of his wound | H |
His sacred side no more shall bear | I |
The cruel scourge the piercing spear | J |
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His hands are fairer to behold | K |
Than diamonds set in rings of gold | K |
Those heav'nly hands that on the tree | G |
Were nailed and torn and bled for me | G |
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Though once he bowed his feeble knees | B |
Loaded with sins and agonies | B |
Now on the throne of his command | L |
His legs like marble pillars stand | L |
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His eyes are majesty and love | D |
The eagle tempered with the dove | D |
No more shall trickling sorrows roll | M |
Through those dear windows of his soul | M |
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His mouth that poured out long complaints | B |
Now smiles and cheers his fainting saints | B |
His countenance more graceful is | B |
Than Lebanon with all its trees | B |
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All over glorious is my Lord | N |
Must be beloved and yet adored | N |
His worth if all the nations knew | O |
Sure the whole earth would love him too | O |
Isaac Watts
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