Crossing The Red Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGHGIJKL KMNMOLPL QRSHTUVU WXAXYZYZ A2B2C2D2HCB2C E2HE2HF2G2H2G2 THI2RC2D2OJ2 K2L2D2L2M2N2D2N2| Before them lay the heaving deep | A |
| Behind the foemen pressed | B |
| And every face grew dark with fear | C |
| And anguish filled each breast | B |
| Save one the Leader's he serene | D |
| Beheld with dauntless mind | E |
| The restless floods before them seen | D |
| The foe that pressed behind | E |
| Why hast thou brought us forth for this | F |
| The people loudly cry | G |
| Were there no graves in Egypt's land | H |
| That here we come to die | G |
| But calm and clear above the din | I |
| Arose the prophet's word | J |
| Stand still stand still and ye shall see | K |
| The salvation of the Lord | L |
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| Fear not the foes whom now you see | K |
| Your eyes no more shall view | M |
| Peace to your fears your fathers' God | N |
| This day shall fight for you | M |
| For Egypt in her haughty pride | O |
| And stubbornness abhorred | L |
| This day in bitterness shall learn | P |
| Jehovah is the Lord | L |
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| He spake and o'er the Red Sea's flood | Q |
| He stretched his awful wand | R |
| And lo the startled waves retired | S |
| Abashed on either hand | H |
| And like a mighty rampart rose | T |
| To guard the narrow way | U |
| Mysterious that before the hosts | V |
| Of ransomed Israel lay | U |
| - | |
| Oh strange and solemn was the road | W |
| Which they were called to tread | X |
| With myst'ries of the ancient deep | A |
| Around their footsteps spread | X |
| With ocean's unknown floor laid bare | Y |
| Before their wondering eyes | Z |
| And the strange watery wall that there | Y |
| On either hand did rise | Z |
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| Yet fearlessly with steadfast faith | A2 |
| Their Leader led them on | B2 |
| While from behind a heavenly light | C2 |
| Through the dread passage shone | D2 |
| Light for that lone and trembling band | H |
| Gleamed out with radiance clear | C |
| While Egypt's host came groping on | B2 |
| Through darkness dense and drear | C |
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| 'Tis past and on Arabia's coast | E2 |
| The tribes of Israel stand | H |
| While fierce and fast Egyptia's host | E2 |
| Approach that quiet strand | H |
| Though darkness like a funeral pall | F2 |
| Hangs o'er that dreary path | G2 |
| Still on they desperately press | H2 |
| In bitterness and wrath | G2 |
| - | |
| Then slowly once again arose | T |
| The Hebrew prophet's hand | H |
| And o'er the waiting deep outstretched | I2 |
| Once more that awful wand | R |
| The rushing waters closed in might | C2 |
| Above that pathway lone | D2 |
| And Pharaoh in his haughty pride | O |
| And all his hosts were gone | J2 |
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| Wail Egypt wail thy kingly crown | K2 |
| Is humbled in the dust | L2 |
| And thou though late art forced to own | D2 |
| That Israel's God is just | L2 |
| And thou O Israel lift thy voice | M2 |
| In one triumphant song | N2 |
| Of praise to Him in whom alone | D2 |
| Thy feeble arm is strong | N2 |
Pamela S. Vining, (j. C. Yule)
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