Psalm Civ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACC DEFEGG HIHJKK LMLMBB NONPQQ RSRSTT LULVWX YZYZA2A2 LB2LB2VU A2C2A2C2D2D2 E2CE2CF2F2 F2F2| how boundless is thy might | A |
| Whose throne of state is cloath'd with glorious rays | B |
| And round about hast robed thyself with light | A |
| Who like a curtain hast the heavens displayed | C |
| And in the watry roofs thy chambers laid | C |
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| Whose chariots are the thickned clouds above | D |
| Who walkst upon the winged winds below | E |
| At whose command the airy spirits move | F |
| And fiery meteors their obedience show | E |
| Who on this base the earth didst firmly found | G |
| And mad'st the deep to circumvent it round | G |
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| The waves that rise would drown the highest hill | H |
| But at thy check they flie and when they hear | I |
| Thy thundering voice they post to do thy will | H |
| And bound their furies in their proper sphere | J |
| Where surging floods and valing ebbs can tell | K |
| That none beyond thy marks must sink or swell | K |
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| Who hath dispos'd but thou the winding way | L |
| Where springs down from their steepy crags do beat | M |
| At which both fostered beasts their thirsts allay | L |
| And the wild asses come to quench their heat | M |
| Where birds resort and in their kind thy praise | B |
| Among the branches chant in warbling lays | B |
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| The mounts are vvatred from thy dwelling place | N |
| The barns and meads are fill'd for man and beast | O |
| Wine glacis the heart and oyl adorns the face | N |
| And bread the staff whereon our strength doth rest | P |
| Nor shrubs alone feel thy sufficing hand | Q |
| But even the cedars that so proudly stand | Q |
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| So have the fowls their sundry seats to breed | R |
| The ranging stork in stately beeches dwells | S |
| The climbing goats on hills securely feed | R |
| The mining coneys shroud in rocky cells | S |
| Nor can the heavenly lights their course forget | T |
| The moon her turns or sun his times to set | T |
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| Thou mak'st the night to over vail the day | L |
| Then savage beasts creep from the silent wood | U |
| Then lions' whelps lie roaring for their prey | L |
| And at thy powerful hand demand their food | V |
| Who when at morn they all recouch again | W |
| Then toyling man till eve pursues his pain | X |
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| O Lord when on thy various works we look | Y |
| How richly furnish'd is the earth we tread | Z |
| Where in the fair contents of Nature's book | Y |
| We may the wonders of thy wisdom read | Z |
| Nor earth alone but lo the sea so wide | A2 |
| Where great and small a world of creatures glide | A2 |
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| There go the ships that furrow out their way | L |
| Yea thereof whales enormous sights we see | B2 |
| Which yet have scope among the rest to play | L |
| And all do wait for their support on thee | B2 |
| Who hast assigned each thing his proper food | V |
| And in due season dost dispense thy good | U |
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| They gather when thy gifts thou dost divide | A2 |
| Their stores abound if thou thy hand enlarge | C2 |
| Confused they are when thou thy beams dost hide | A2 |
| In dust resolved if thou their breath discharge | C2 |
| Again when thou of life renewst the seeds | D2 |
| The withered fields revest their cheerfull weeds | D2 |
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| Be ever gloried here thy sovereign name | E2 |
| That thou mayst smile on all which thou hast made | C |
| Whose frown alone can shake this earthly frame | E2 |
| And at whose touch the hills in smoak shall vade | C |
| For me may while I breathe both harp and voice | F2 |
| In sweet indictment of thy hymns rejoyce | F2 |
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| Let sinners fail let all profaneness cease | F2 |
| His praise my soul his praise shall be thy peace | F2 |
Sir Henry Wotton
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