Psalm 139 Part 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEF GGHA IJKL MMNN O PQRR JJSS TUVW JJTT MMNN O XXYY UUOO MMNNThe all seeing God | A |
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Lord thou hast searched and seen me through | B |
Thine eye commands with piercing view | B |
My rising and my resting hours | C |
My heart and flesh with all their powers | C |
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My thoughts before they are my own | D |
Are to my God distinctly known | D |
He knows the words I mean to speak | E |
Ere from my op'ning lips they break | F |
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Within thy circling power I stand | G |
On every side I find thy hand | G |
Awake asleep at home abroad | H |
I am surrounded still with God | A |
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Amazing knowledge vast and great | I |
What large extent what lofty height | J |
My soul with all the powers I boast | K |
Is in the boundless prospect lost | L |
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O may these thoughts possess my breast | M |
Where'er I rove where'er I rest | M |
Nor let my weaker passions dare | N |
Consent to sin for God is there | N |
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PAUSE I | O |
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Could I so false so faithless prove | P |
To quit thy service and thy love | Q |
Where Lord could I thy presence shun | R |
Or from thy dreadful glory run | R |
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If up to heav'n I take my flight | J |
'Tis there thou dwell'st enthroned in light | J |
Or dive to hell there vengeance reigns | S |
And Satan groans beneath thy chains | S |
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If mounted on a morning ray | T |
I fly beyond the western sea | U |
Thy swifter hand would first arrive | V |
And there arrest thy fugitive | W |
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Or should I try to shun thy sight | J |
Beneath the spreading veil of night | J |
One glance of thine one piercing ray | T |
Would kindle darkness into day | T |
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O may these thoughts possess my breast | M |
Where'er I rove where'er I rest | M |
Nor let my weaker passions dare | N |
Consent to sin for God is there | N |
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PAUSE II | O |
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The veil of night is no disguise | X |
No screen from thy all searching eyes | X |
Thy hand can seize thy foes as soon | Y |
Through midnight shades as blazing noon | Y |
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Midnight and noon in this agree | U |
Great God they're both alike to thee | U |
Not death can hide what God will spy | O |
And hell lies naked to his eye | O |
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O may these thoughts possess my breast | M |
Where'er I rove where'er I rest | M |
Nor let my weaker passions dare | N |
Consent to sin for God is there | N |
Isaac Watts
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