Psalm 129 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEF GHGH IJKJ LMNM OJOJ PQPR OOOO OOOOPersecutors 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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