Psalm 83 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HIJI BCKC JLML NOPO QRLR STUQ| A complaint against persecutors | A |
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| And will the God of grace | B |
| Perpetual silence keep | C |
| The God of justice hold his peace | D |
| And let his vengeance sleep | C |
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| Behold what cursed snares | E |
| The men of mischief spread | F |
| The men that hate thy saints and thee | G |
| Lift up their threat'ning head | F |
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| Against thy hidden ones | H |
| Their counsels they employ | I |
| And malice with her watchful eye | J |
| Pursues them to destroy | I |
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| The noble and the base | B |
| Into thy pastures leap | C |
| The lion and the stupid ass | K |
| Conspire to vex thy sheep | C |
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| Come let us join they cry | J |
| To root them from the ground | L |
| Till not the name of saints remain | M |
| Nor mem'ry shall be found | L |
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| Awake Almighty God | N |
| And call thy wrath to mind | O |
| Give them like forests to the fire | P |
| Or stubble to the wind | O |
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| Convince their madness Lord | Q |
| And make them seek thy name | R |
| Or else their stubborn rage confound | L |
| That they may die in shame | R |
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| Then shall the nations know | S |
| That glorious dreadful word | T |
| Jehovah is thy name alone | U |
| And thou the sovereign Lord | Q |
Isaac Watts
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