Psalm 84 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDE FGFG HDHD IJIJ K LALA AMAH NOLP AQAQ ALAR| v 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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