Psal. Lxxxviii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCBBBBDEDEFAFA BGBGGHGHIJIJKLKLGGGG GMGMNGNGGOGPBGQGRJRJ SBSBSBSMGBGB| Lord God that dost me save and keep | A |
| All day to thee I cry | B |
| And all night long before thee weep | A |
| Before thee prostrate lie | B |
| Into thy presence let my praier | B |
| With sighs devout ascend | C |
| And to my cries that ceaseless are | B |
| Thine ear with favour bend | C |
| For cloy'd with woes and trouble store | B |
| Surcharg'd my Soul doth lie | B |
| My life at death's uncherful dore | B |
| Unto the grave draws nigh | B |
| Reck'n'd I am with them that pass | D |
| Down to the dismal pit | E |
| I am a man but weak alas | D |
| And for that name unfit | E |
| From life discharg'd and parted quite | F |
| Among the dead to sleep | A |
| And like the slain in bloody fight | F |
| That in the grave lie deep | A |
| Whom thou rememberest no more | B |
| Dost never more regard | G |
| Them from thy hand deliver'd o're | B |
| Deaths hideous house hath barr'd | G |
| Thou in the lowest pit profound' | G |
| Hast set me all forlorn | H |
| Where thickest darkness hovers round | G |
| In horrid deeps to mourn | H |
| Thy wrath from which no shelter saves | I |
| Full sore doth press on me | J |
| Thou break'st upon me all thy waves | I |
| And all thy waves break me | J |
| Thou dost my friends from me estrange | K |
| And mak'st me odious | L |
| Me to them odious for they change | K |
| And I here pent up thus | L |
| Through sorrow and affliction great | G |
| Mine eye grows dim and dead | G |
| Lord all the day I thee entreat | G |
| My hands to thee I spread | G |
| Wilt thou do wonders on the dead | G |
| Shall the deceas'd arise | M |
| And praise thee from their loathsom bed | G |
| With pale and hollow eyes | M |
| Shall they thy loving kindness tell | N |
| On whom the grave hath hold | G |
| Or they who in perdition dwell | N |
| Thy faithfulness unfold | G |
| In darkness can thy mighty hand | G |
| Or wondrous acts be known | O |
| Thy justice in the gloomy land | G |
| Of dark oblivion | P |
| But I to thee O Lord do cry | B |
| E're yet my life be spent | G |
| And up to thee my praier doth hie | Q |
| Each morn and thee prevent | G |
| Why wilt thou Lord my soul forsake | R |
| And hide thy face from me | J |
| That am already bruis'd and shake | R |
| With terror sent from thee | J |
| Bruz'd and afflicted and so low | S |
| As ready to expire | B |
| While I thy terrors undergo | S |
| Astonish'd with thine ire | B |
| Thy fierce wrath over me doth flow | S |
| Thy threatnings cut me through | B |
| All day they round about me go | S |
| Like waves they me persue | M |
| Lover and friend thou hast remov'd | G |
| And sever'd from me far | B |
| They fly me now whom I have lov'd | G |
| And as in darkness are | B |
John Milton
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