Psalm 135 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA B CDCD EFEF GHGH IEIE JKJK LMLM NOPO QRSTA | |
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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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