Hymn 86 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDED FFFF FGFH IJKJ FFFF FLMLGod holy just and sovereign | A |
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Job | B |
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How should the sons of Adam's race | C |
Be pure before their God | D |
If he contend in righteousness | E |
We fall beneath his rod | D |
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To vindicate my words and thoughts | F |
I'll make no more pretence | F |
Not one of all my thousand faults | F |
Can bear a just defence | F |
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Strong is his arm his heart is wise | F |
What vain presumer's dare | G |
Against their Maker's hand to rise | F |
Or tempt th' unequal war | H |
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Mountains by his almighty wrath | I |
From their old seats are torn | J |
He shakes the earth from south to north | K |
And all her pillars mourn | J |
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He bids the sun forbear to rise | F |
Th' obedient sun forbears | F |
His hand with sackcloth spreads the skies | F |
And seals up all the stars | F |
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He walks upon the stormy sea | F |
Flies on the stormy wind | L |
There's none can trace his wondrous way | M |
Or his dark footsteps find | L |
Isaac Watts
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