Psalm 19: Coeli Enarrant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIJI KLML NNON PQRQ STUT VLWL NLJL WWRW NRNR NNAN XERG YVZV NSNS A2SNS| The heavenly frame sets forth the fame | A |
| Of him that only thunders | B |
| The firmament so strangely bent | C |
| Shows his handworking wonders | B |
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| Day unto day doth it display | D |
| Their course doth it acknowledge | E |
| And night to night succeeding right | F |
| In darkness teach clear knowledge | G |
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| There is no speech no language which | H |
| Is so of skill bereaved | I |
| But of the skies the teaching cries | J |
| They have heard and conceived | I |
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| There be no eyen but read the line | K |
| From so fair book proceeding | L |
| Their words be set in letters great | M |
| For everybody's reading | L |
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| Is not he blind that doth not find | N |
| The tabernacle builded | N |
| There by His Grace for sun's fair face | O |
| In beams of beauty gilded | N |
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| Who forth doth come like a bridegroom | P |
| From out his veiling places | Q |
| As glad is he as giants be | R |
| To run their mighty races | Q |
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| His race is even from ends of heaven | S |
| About that vault he goeth | T |
| There be no realms hid from his beams | U |
| His heat to all he throweth | T |
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| O law of His how perfect 'tis | V |
| The very soul amending | L |
| God's witness sure for aye doth dure | W |
| To simplest wisdom lending | L |
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| God's dooms be right and cheer the sprite | N |
| All His commandments being | L |
| So purely wise it gives the eyes | J |
| Both light and force of seeing | L |
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| Of Him the fear doth cleanness bear | W |
| And so endures forever | W |
| His judgments be self verity | R |
| They are unrighteous never | W |
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| Then what man would so soon seek gold | N |
| Or glittering golden money | R |
| By them is past in sweetest taste | N |
| Honey or comb of honey | R |
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| By them is made Thy servants' trade | N |
| Most circumspectly guarded | N |
| And who doth frame to keep the same | A |
| Shall fully be rewarded | N |
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| Who is the man that ever can | X |
| His faults know and acknowledge | E |
| O Lord cleanse me from faults that be | R |
| Most secret from all knowledge | G |
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| Thy servant keep lest in him creep | Y |
| Presumtuous sins' offenses | V |
| Let them not have me for their slave | Z |
| Nor reign upon my senses | V |
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| So shall my sprite be still upright | N |
| In thought and conversation | S |
| So shall I bide well purified | N |
| From much abomination | S |
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| So let words sprung from my weak tongue | A2 |
| And my heart's meditation | S |
| My saving might Lord in Thy sight | N |
| Receive good acceptation | S |
Sir Philip Sidney
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