Psalm 114 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFBB GGHI JKLM NOPQ| Miracles attending Israel's journey | A |
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| When Isr'el freed from Pharaoh's hand | B |
| Left the proud tyrant and his land | B |
| The tribes with cheerful homage own | C |
| Their King and Judah was his throne | C |
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| Across the deep their journey lay | D |
| The deep divides to make them way | D |
| Jordan beheld their march and fled | E |
| With backward current to his head | E |
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| The mountains shook like frighted sheep | F |
| Like lambs the little hillocks leap | F |
| Not Sinai on her base could stand | B |
| Conscious of sovereign power at hand | B |
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| What power could make the deep divide | G |
| Make Jordan backward roll his tide | G |
| Why did ye leap ye little hills | H |
| And whence the fright that Sinai feels | I |
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| Let every mountain every flood | J |
| Retire and know th' approaching God | K |
| The King of Isr'el see him here | L |
| Tremble thou earth adore and fear | M |
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| He thunders and all nature mourns | N |
| The rock to standing pools he turns | O |
| Flints spring with fountains at his word | P |
| And fires and seas confess the Lord | Q |
Isaac Watts
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