Psalm 73 Part 1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KEKE BCBD LBMB BNBN OBMB DPDPAfflicted saints happy and prosperous sinners cursed | A |
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Now I'm convinced the Lord is kind | B |
To men of heart sincere | C |
Yet once my foolish thoughts repined | B |
And bordered on despair | D |
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I grieved to see the wicked thrive | E |
And spoke with angry breath | F |
How pleasant and profane they live | E |
How peaceful is their death | F |
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With well fed flesh and haughty eyes | G |
They lay their fears to sleep | H |
Against the heav'ns their slanders rise | G |
While saints in silence weep | H |
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In vain I lift my hands to pray | I |
And cleanse my heart in vain | J |
For I am chastened all the day | I |
The night renews my pain | J |
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Yet while my tongue indulged complaints | K |
I felt my heart reprove | E |
Sure I shall thus offend thy saints | K |
And grieve the men I love | E |
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But still I found my doubts too hard | B |
The conflict too severe | C |
Till I retired to search thy word | B |
And learn thy secrets there | D |
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There as in some prophetic glass | L |
I saw the sinner's feet | B |
High mounted on a slipp'ry place | M |
Beside a fiery pit | B |
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I heard the wretch profanely boast | B |
Till at thy frown he fell | N |
His honors in a dream were lost | B |
And he awakes in hell | N |
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Lord what an envious fool I was | O |
How like a thoughtless beast | B |
Thus to suspect thy promised grace | M |
And think the wicked blest | B |
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Yet I was kept from full despair | D |
Upheld by power unknown | P |
That blessed hand that broke the snare | D |
Shall guide me to thy throne | P |
Isaac Watts
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