Psalm 90 Part 2 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFE GAHA IJIJ KLKM NONO PQRQ STSUv | A |
C M | B |
Infirmities and mortality the effect of sin | C |
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Lord if thine eye surveys our faults | D |
And justice grows severe | E |
Thy dreadful wrath exceeds our thoughts | F |
And burns beyond our fear | E |
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Thine anger turns our frame to dust | G |
By one offence to thee | A |
Adam with all his sons have lost | H |
Their immortality | A |
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Life like a vain amusement flies | I |
A fable or a song | J |
By swift degrees our nature dies | I |
Nor can our joys be long | J |
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'Tis but a few whose days amount | K |
To threescore years and ten | L |
And all beyond that short account | K |
Is sorrow toil and pain | M |
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Our vitals with laborious strife | N |
Bear up the crazy load | O |
And drag those poor remains of life | N |
Along the tiresome road | O |
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Almighty God reveal thy love | P |
And not thy wrath alone | Q |
O let our sweet experience prove | R |
The mercies of thy throne | Q |
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Our souls would learn the heav'nly art | S |
T' improve the hours we have | T |
That we may act the wiser part | S |
And live beyond the grave | U |
Isaac Watts
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