The Day Of Judgement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IBEJ JKLH KMKH KNKO ILPI QKOL RBSB| When the fierce North wind with his airy forces | A |
| Rears up the Baltic to a foaming fury | B |
| And the red lightning with a storm of hail comes | C |
| Rushing amain down | D |
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| How the poor sailors stand amazed and tremble | E |
| While the hoarse thunder like a bloody trumpet | F |
| Roars a loud onset to the gaping waters | G |
| Quick to devour them | H |
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| Such shall the noise be and the wild disorder | I |
| If things eternal may be like these earthly | B |
| Such the dire terror when the great Archangel | E |
| Shakes the creation | J |
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| Tears the strong pillars of the vault of Heaven | J |
| Breaks up old marble the repose of princes | K |
| Sees the graves open and the bones arising | L |
| Flames all around them | H |
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| Hark the shrill outcries of the guilty wretches | K |
| Lively bright horror and amazing anguish | M |
| Stare thro' their eyelids while the living worm lies | K |
| Gnawing within them | H |
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| Thoughts like old vultures prey upon their heart strings | K |
| And the smart twinges when the eye beholds the | N |
| Lofty Judge frowning and a flood of vengeance | K |
| Rolling afore him | O |
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| Hopeless immortals how they scream and shiver | I |
| While devils push them to the pit wide yawning | L |
| Hideous and gloomy to receive them headlong | P |
| Down to the centre | I |
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| Stop here my fancy all away ye horrid | Q |
| Doleful ideas come arise to Jesus | K |
| How He sits God like and the saints around Him | O |
| Throned yet adoring | L |
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| O may I sit there when He comes triumphant | R |
| Dooming the nations then ascend to glory | B |
| While our Hosannas all along the passage | S |
| Shout the Redeemer | B |
Isaac Watts
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