Psalm 105 Abridged Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGHG IJIK CLCL MNMM OPOP QRQS T UMUM BMVM WMWM XYZY A2MA2M QRQS T MMMM B2MB2M C2D2E2Y F2CG2H2 MMMM QRQS| God's conduct of Israel and the plagues of Egypt | A |
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| Give thanks to God invoke his name | B |
| And tell the world his grace | C |
| Sound through the earth his deeds of fame | B |
| That all may seek his face | C |
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| His cov'nant which he kept in mind | D |
| For num'rous ages past | E |
| To num'rous ages yet behind | D |
| In equal force shall last | E |
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| He sware to Abraham and his seed | F |
| And made the blessing sure | G |
| Gentiles the ancient promise read | H |
| And find his truth endure | G |
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| Thy seed shall make all nations blest | I |
| Said the Almighty voice | J |
| And Canaan's land shall be their rest | I |
| The type of heav'nly joys | K |
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| How large the grant how rich the grace | C |
| To give them Canaan's land | L |
| When they were strangers in the place | C |
| A little feeble band | L |
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| Like pilgrims through the countries round | M |
| Securely they removed | N |
| And haughty kings that on them frowned | M |
| Severely he reproved | M |
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| Touch mine anointed and my arm | O |
| Shall soon revenge the wrong | P |
| The man that does my prophets harm | O |
| Shall know their God is strong | P |
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| Then let the world forbear its rage | Q |
| Nor put the church in fear | R |
| Isr'el must live through every age | Q |
| And be th' Almighty's care | S |
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| PAUSE I | T |
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| When Pharaoh dared to vex the saints | U |
| And thus provoked their God | M |
| Moses was sent at their complaints | U |
| Armed with his dreadful rod | M |
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| He called for darkness darkness came | B |
| Like an o'erwhelming flood | M |
| He turned each lake and every stream | V |
| To lakes and streams of blood | M |
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| He gave the sign and noisome flies | W |
| Through the whole country spread | M |
| And frogs in croaking armies rise | W |
| About the monarch's bed | M |
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| Through fields and towns and palaces | X |
| The tenfold vengeance flew | Y |
| Locusts in swarms devoured their trees | Z |
| And hail their cattle slew | Y |
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| Then by an angel's midnight stroke | A2 |
| The flower of Egypt died | M |
| The strength of every house was broke | A2 |
| Their glory and their pride | M |
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| Now let the world forbear its rage | Q |
| Nor put the church in fear | R |
| Isr'el must live through every age | Q |
| And be th' Almighty's care | S |
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| PAUSE II | T |
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| Thus were the tribes from bondage brought | M |
| And left the hated ground | M |
| Each some Egyptian spoils had got | M |
| And not one feeble found | M |
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| The Lord himself chose out their way | B2 |
| And marked their journeys right | M |
| Gave them a leading cloud by day | B2 |
| A fiery guide by night | M |
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| They thirst and waters from the rock | C2 |
| In rich abundance flow | D2 |
| And following still the course they took | E2 |
| Ran all the desert through | Y |
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| O wondrous stream O blessed type | F2 |
| Of ever flowing grace | C |
| So Christ our Rock maintains our life | G2 |
| Through all this wilderness | H2 |
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| Thus guarded by th' Almighty hand | M |
| The chosen tribes possessed | M |
| Canaan the rich the promised land | M |
| And there enjoyed their rest | M |
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| Then let the world forbear its rage | Q |
| The church renounce her fear | R |
| Isr'el must live through every age | Q |
| And be th' Almighty's care | S |
Isaac Watts
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