Psalm 22 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCD AAEE FFGA HHII JJKK LLMNChrist's sufferings and exaltation | A |
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Now let our mournful songs record | B |
The dying sorrows of our Lord | B |
When he complained in tears and blood | C |
As one forsaken of his God | D |
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The Jews beheld him thus forlorn | A |
And shake their heads and laugh in scorn | A |
He rescued others from the grave | E |
Now let him try himself to save | E |
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This is the man did once pretend | F |
God was his Father and his Friend | F |
If God the blessed loved him so | G |
Why doth he fail to help him now | A |
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Barbarous people cruel priests | H |
How they stood round like savage beasts | H |
Like lions gaping to devour | I |
When God had left him in their power | I |
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They wound his head his hands his feet | J |
Till streams of blood each other meet | J |
By lot his garments they divide | K |
And mock the pangs in which he died | K |
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But God his Father heard his cry | L |
Raised from the dead he reigns on high | L |
The nations learn his righteousness | M |
And humble sinners taste his grace | N |
Isaac Watts
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