Psalm 129 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEF GHGH IJKJ LMNM OJOJ PQPR OOOO OOOO| Persecutors punished | A |
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| Up from my youth may Isr'el say | B |
| Have I been nursed in tears | C |
| My griefs were constant as the day | B |
| And tedious as the years | D |
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| Up from my youth I bore the rage | E |
| Of all the sons of strife | F |
| Oft they assailed my riper age | E |
| But not destroyed my life | F |
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| Their cruel plow had torn my flesh | G |
| With furrows long and deep | H |
| Hourly they vexed my wounds afresh | G |
| Nor let my sorrows sleep | H |
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| The Lord grew angry on his throne | I |
| And with impartial eye | J |
| Measured the mischiefs they had done | K |
| Then let his arrows fly | J |
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| How was their insolence surprised | L |
| To hear his thunders roll | M |
| And all the foes of Zion seized | N |
| With horror to the soul | M |
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| Thus shall the men that hate the saints | O |
| Be blasted from the sky | J |
| Their glory fades their courage faints | O |
| And all their projects die | J |
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| What though they flourish tall and fair | P |
| They have no root beneath | Q |
| Their growth shall perish in despair | P |
| And lie despised in death | R |
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| So corn that on the house top stands | O |
| No hope of harvest gives | O |
| The reaper ne'er shall fill his hands | O |
| Nor binder fold the sheaves | O |
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| It springs and withers on the place | O |
| No traveller bestows | O |
| A word of blessing on the grass | O |
| Nor minds it as he goes | O |
Isaac Watts
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