Psalm 90 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDD EEFG HIJJ KKLL M NNOO PQRR SSTT EEIIMan 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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