Psalm 74 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGFH IJIJ KLKM CNCN OPQR STUT VWVX Y ZA2ZA2 B2RB2R C2B2C2B2 D2RE2R F2E2F2E2 RG2RG2 RA2RA2 RDRD RRRRThe church pleading with God under sore persecutions | A |
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Will God for ever cast us off | B |
His wrath for ever smoke | C |
Against the people of his love | D |
His little chosen flock | E |
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Think of the tribes so dearly bought | F |
With their Redeemer's blood | G |
Nor let thy Zion be forgot | F |
Where once thy glory stood | H |
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Lift up thy feet and march in haste | I |
Aloud our ruin calls | J |
See what a wide and fearful waste | I |
Is made within thy walls | J |
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Where once thy churches prayed and sang | K |
Thy foes profanely roar | L |
Over thy gates their ensigns hang | K |
Sad tokens of their power | M |
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How are the seats of worship broke | C |
They tear the buildings down | N |
And he that deals the heaviest stroke | C |
Procures the chief renown | N |
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With flames they threaten to destroy | O |
Thy children in their nest | P |
Come let us burn at once they cry | Q |
The temple and the priest | R |
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And still to heighten our distress | S |
Thy presence is withdrawn | T |
Thy wonted signs of power and grace | U |
Thy power and grace are gone | T |
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No prophet speaks to calm our woes | V |
But all the seers mourn | W |
There's not a soul amongst us knows | V |
The time of thy return | X |
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PAUSE | Y |
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How long eternal God how long | Z |
Shall men of pride blaspheme | A2 |
Shall saints be made their endless song | Z |
And bear immortal shame | A2 |
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Canst thou for ever sit and hear | B2 |
Thine holy name profaned | R |
And still thy jealousy forbear | B2 |
And still withhold thine hand | R |
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What strange deliv'rance hast thou shown | C2 |
In ages long before | B2 |
And now no other God we own | C2 |
No other God adore | B2 |
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Thou didst divide the raging sea | D2 |
By thy resistless might | R |
To make thy tribes a wondrous way | E2 |
And then secure their flight | R |
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Is not the world of nature thine | F2 |
The darkness and the day | E2 |
Didst thou not bid the morning shine | F2 |
And mark the sun his way | E2 |
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Hath not thy power formed every coast | R |
And set the earth its bounds | G2 |
With summer's heat and winter's frost | R |
In their perpetual rounds | G2 |
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And shall the sons of earth and dust | R |
That sacred power blaspheme | A2 |
Will not thy hand that formed them first | R |
Avenge thine injured name | A2 |
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Think oh the cov'nant thou hast made | R |
And all thy words of love | D |
Nor let the birds of prey invade | R |
And vex thy mourning dove | D |
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Our foes would triumph in our blood | R |
And make our hope their jest | R |
Plead thy own cause Almighty God | R |
And give thy children rest | R |
Isaac Watts
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