Psalm 88 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBCBBBBDEFGHAHA BIBIIJIJKFLMNONOIIII IPIPQIQIIRISBITIUFSF VBVBVBVPIBIBLord 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 Heb A man without manly | F |
And for that name unfit strength | G |
From life discharg'd and parted quite | H |
Among the dead to sleep | A |
And like the slain in bloody fight | H |
That in the grave lie deep | A |
Whom thou rememberest no more | B |
Dost never more regard | I |
Them from thy hand deliver'd o're | B |
Deaths hideous house hath barr'd | I |
Thou in the lowest pit profound' | I |
Hast set me all forlorn | J |
Where thickest darkness hovers round | I |
In horrid deeps to mourn | J |
Thy wrath from which no shelter saves | K |
Full sore doth press on me | F |
Thou break'st upon me all thy waves The Heb | L |
And all thy waves break me bears both | M |
Thou dost my friends from me estrange | N |
And mak'st me odious | O |
Me to them odious for they change | N |
And I here pent up thus | O |
Through sorrow and affliction great | I |
Mine eye grows dim and dead | I |
Lord all the day I thee entreat | I |
My hands to thee I spread | I |
Wilt thou do wonders on the dead | I |
Shall the deceas'd arise | P |
And praise thee from their loathsom bed | I |
With pale and hollow eyes | P |
Shall they thy loving kindness tell | Q |
On whom the grave hath hold | I |
Or they who in perdition dwell | Q |
Thy faithfulness unfold | I |
In darkness can thy mighty hand | I |
Or wondrous acts be known | R |
Thy justice in the gloomy land | I |
Of dark oblivion | S |
But I to thee O Lord do cry | B |
E're yet my life be spent | I |
And up to thee my praier doth hie | T |
Each morn and thee prevent | I |
Why wilt thou Lord my soul forsake | U |
And hide thy face from me | F |
That am already bruis'd and shake Heb Prae Concussione | S |
With terror sent from thee | F |
Bruz'd and afflicted and so low | V |
As ready to expire | B |
While I thy terrors undergo | V |
Astonish'd with thine ire | B |
Thy fierce wrath over me doth flow | V |
Thy threatnings cut me through | B |
All day they round about me go | V |
Like waves they me persue | P |
Lover and friend thou hast remov'd | I |
And sever'd from me far | B |
They fly me now whom I have lov'd | I |
And as in darkness are | B |
John Milton
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