Psalm 135 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA B CDCD EFEF GHGH IEIE JKJK LMLM NOPO QRST| A | |
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| Praise due to God not to idols | B |
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| Awake ye saints to praise your King | C |
| Your sweetest passions raise | D |
| Your pious pleasure while you sing | C |
| Increasing with the praise | D |
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| Great is the Lord and works unknown | E |
| Are his divine employ | F |
| But still his saints are near his throne | E |
| His treasure and his joy | F |
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| Heav'n earth and sea confess his hand | G |
| He bids the vapors rise | H |
| Lightning and storm at his command | G |
| Sweep through the sounding skies | H |
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| All power that gods or kings have claimed | I |
| Is found with him alone | E |
| But heathen gods should ne'er be named | I |
| Where our Jehovah's known | E |
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| Which of the stocks or stones they trust | J |
| Can give them showers of rain | K |
| In vain they worship glitt'ring dust | J |
| And pray to gold in vain | K |
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| Their gods have tongues that cannot talk | L |
| Such as their makers gave | M |
| Their feet were ne'er designed to walk | L |
| Nor hands have power to save | M |
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| Blind are their eyes their ears are deaf | N |
| Nor hear when mortals pray | O |
| Mortals that wait for their relief | P |
| Are blind and deaf as they | O |
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| O Britain know thy living God | Q |
| Serve him with faith and fear | R |
| He makes thy churches his abode | S |
| And claims thine honors there | T |
Isaac Watts
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