Psalm 84 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDE FGFG HDHD IJIJ K LALA AMAH NOLP AQAQ ALARv paraphrased | A |
C M | B |
Delight in ordinances of worship or God present in his churches | C |
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My soul how lovely is the place | D |
To which thy God resorts | E |
'Tis heav'n to see his smiling face | D |
Though in his earthly courts | E |
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There the great Monarch of the skies | F |
His saving power displays | G |
And light breaks in upon our eyes | F |
With kind and quick'ning rays | G |
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With his rich gifts the heav'nly Dove | H |
Descends and fills the place | D |
While Christ reveals his wondrous love | H |
And sheds abroad his grace | D |
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There mighty God thy words declare | I |
The secrets of thy will | J |
And still we seek thy mercy there | I |
And sing thy praises still | J |
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PAUSE | K |
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My heart and flesh cry out for thee | L |
While far from thine abode | A |
When shall I tread thy courts and see | L |
My Savior and my God | A |
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The sparrow builds herself a nest | A |
And suffers no remove | M |
O make me like the sparrows blest | A |
To dwell but where I love | H |
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To sit one day beneath thine eye | N |
And hear thy gracious voice | O |
Exceeds a whole eternity | L |
Employed in carnal joys | P |
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Lord at thy threshold I would wait | A |
While Jesus is within | Q |
Rather than fill a throne of state | A |
Or live in tents of sin | Q |
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Could I command the spacious land | A |
And the more boundless sea | L |
For one blest hour at thy right hand | A |
I'd give them both away | R |
Isaac Watts
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