Belshazzar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG BHBI JKJK LMLM NONP| Poor sinners little do they think | A |
| With whom they have to do | B |
| But stand securely on the brink | A |
| Of everlasting woe | C |
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| Belshazzar thus profanely bold | D |
| The Lord of hosts defied | E |
| But vengeance soon his boasts controlled | D |
| And humbled all his pride | E |
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| He saw a hand upon the wall | F |
| And trembled on his throne | G |
| Which wrote his sudden dreadful fall | F |
| In characters unknown | G |
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| Why should he tremble at the view | B |
| Of what he could not read | H |
| Foreboding conscience quickly knew | B |
| His ruin was decreed | I |
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| See him o'erwhelmed with deep distress | J |
| His eyes with anguish roll | K |
| His looks and loosened joints express | J |
| The terrors of his soul | K |
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| His pomp and music guests and wine | L |
| No more delight afford | M |
| O sinner ere this case be thine | L |
| Begin to seek the Lord | M |
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| The law like this hand writing stands | N |
| And speaks the wrath of God | O |
| But Jesus answers its demands | N |
| And cancels it with blood | P |
John Newton
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