He Shall Dwell On High Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDBB CCCCCCCC BBEECCFF BBGGHHCC BBHHIIJJ GGIIGGCC| Isaiah | A |
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| Tossed about in strange commotion | B |
| Like the surface of the ocean | B |
| When the wind its waters lashing | C |
| Sends great billows roaring dashing | C |
| O'er the breakers which for ages | D |
| Have withstood the storms it wages | D |
| See those clouds so like this ocean | B |
| How they whirl in strange commotion | B |
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| Dust and vapor now are meeting | C |
| Each the other wildly greeting | C |
| As one hand another grasping | C |
| So are these each other clasping | C |
| Now they whirl in form fantastic | C |
| And great trees with boughs elastic | C |
| With loud moans are lowly bending | C |
| Leaves and fruit to earth descending | C |
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| Eyes 'most blinded nerves all shaken | B |
| By this fearful storm o'ertaken | B |
| As it swept on toward the sunrise | E |
| Yet I chanced to lift my dim eyes | E |
| Upward when O sight entrancing | C |
| I beheld to west advancing | C |
| Other clouds in higher current | F |
| Unlike earth's so wild and errant | F |
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| Far above the wild commotion | B |
| Like great ships on peaceful ocean | B |
| Floating westward grand and steady | G |
| Were those clouds as if made ready | G |
| As great cars with grand pavilions | H |
| To convey the ransomed millions | H |
| From this earth where storms are raging | C |
| To that land of charms engaging | C |
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| Life on earth is a probation | B |
| Storms fit well in this relation | B |
| Yet above are peaceful regions | H |
| Where ne'er come hell's dreaded legions | H |
| Looking toward the things eternal | I |
| We may rise to realms supernal | I |
| Where earth's dust will not defile us | J |
| Nor the cunning foe beguile us | J |
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| To this higher plain O lift me | G |
| Gracious Lord ere Satan sift me | G |
| Far above this noisy Babel | I |
| Far above earth's clouds all sable | I |
| Up so far no darts can reach me | G |
| Where the Holy Ghost will teach me | G |
| And in perfect peace abiding | C |
| I will sing while heavenward riding | C |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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