Alankar(Decor)-77

Here He Dwelleth(Chain Verse) Chain Verse is composed in one of three ways: 1 Chain Verse is composed with the last word or syllable of one line repeated in the beginning of the next line. 2 Chain Verse can be stanzaic, most often written in any number of quatrains but any stanza form will do, linked by repeating the last word of a stanza as the first word of the next stanza. The repetition of a word from one Verse or stanza to the next creates a chain-like link. usually rhymed, linking rhyme as well as alternate rhyme. often syllabic, alternating longer-shorter lines. One example is alternating 8-7-8-7 syllables the other is alternating 6-5-6-5 syllables per line. 3 Chain Verse can be written with the last line of the stanza repeated as the first line of the next stanza. 2b Here He Dwelleth (8-5-8-5 syllables with linking and alternate rhymes abab, cdcd, e.t.c) 'Woes have done intolerable O'Lord please descend Thee alone is responsible This fate you to mend Mend our lives o'divine mender Our lives at your feet Come o'lord ' pleaded man slender Then spoke a voice sweet Sweet from Nought, 'tell me o'my child Which form you want me Man or animal, mild or wild Elements any? ' 'Any form? ' man thought for a while Knowing their foul tone Chose not living beings hostile But wished for stone Stone, he carved hard created God Thence forms more sculpted Valorous with weapons to guard Lighted life trusted Trusted, God would sure come to bless And that he be freed Of slaying woes and killing stress That way he waited Waited lord too again asked man From the Nought 'o' child Tell, to what shall I hold on than To conceal and hide' 'Hide not my Lord, here are my makes Your choice my pleasure Choose to be but in all my makes Thee I shall treasure' Treasuredpowers cloaked the idol Thereon by prayers Matins, litanies rose tidal Joined all obeyers Obeyers' way thus was one found Gods and names many Bathed with decor many profound Bound He by any