Psalm 90 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDD EEFG HIJJ KKLL M NNOO PQRR SSTT EEII| Man mortal and God eternal | A |
| A mournful song at a funeral | A |
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| Through every age eternal God | B |
| Thou art our rest our safe abode | C |
| High was thy throne ere heav'n was made | D |
| Or earth thy humble footstool laid | D |
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| Long hadst thou reigned ere time began | E |
| Or dust was fashioned to a man | E |
| And long thy kingdom shall endure | F |
| When earth and time shall be no more | G |
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| But man weak man is born to die | H |
| Made up of guilt and vanity | I |
| Thy dreadful sentence Lord was just | J |
| Return ye sinners to your dust | J |
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| A thousand of our years amount | K |
| Scarce to a day in thine account | K |
| Like yesterday's departed light | L |
| Or the last watch of ending night | L |
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| PAUSE | M |
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| Death like an overflowing stream | N |
| Sweeps us away our life's a dream | N |
| An empty tale a morning flower | O |
| Cut down and withered in an hour | O |
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| Our age to seventy years is set | P |
| How short the time how frail the state | Q |
| And if to eighty we arrive | R |
| We rather sigh and groan than live | R |
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| But O how oft thy wrath appears | S |
| And cuts off our expected years | S |
| Thy wrath awakes our humble dread | T |
| We fear the power that strikes us dead | T |
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| Teach us O Lord how frail is man | E |
| And kindly lengthen out our span | E |
| Till a wise care of piety | I |
| Fit us to die and dwell with thee | I |
Isaac Watts
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