Analysis of The Silence in the Church
Ada Cambridge 1844 (St Germans, Norfolk) – 1926 (Melbourne)
“The congregation shall be desired, secretly in their prayers, to make their humble
supplications to God . . . .
for the which prayers there shall be silence kept for a
space.”
(No. 1.)
O Holy spirit, we entreat,
Send down Thy quickening fire;
Let Thine own presence, dread and sweet,
These waiting hearts inspire.
In every thought and word and deed,
Breathe Thou the breath of life—
The fulness of the grace they need
For their appointed strife.
Help them to hold, in clasp of prayer,
The rod and staff of God;
And lead them safely, surely, where
The Christ Himself hath trod.
Give power to speak Thy message, Lord,
To every feeble voice;
May they the true seed cast abroad
Till desert wastes rejoice.
Make strong the toiling hearts and hands,
Keep watching eyes from sleep,
That golden harvests crown the lands
When angels come to reap.
* * * * *
(No. 2.)
POUR now, O Lord, all gifts of grace
From Thy most holy dwelling-place;
And let the living flame be shed
On each disciple's bended head.
Light up his soul with light divine,—
A star of heaven on earth to shine,
A beacon on life's stormy sea,
To guide the wandering bark to Thee.
Lord, clothe him now in white complete,
In Thine own spirit, pure and sweet;
Let him go forth to labour well,
In truth and strength invincible.
May his calm lips, that whisper now
The yearning prayer, the solemn vow,
Be ready, in the judgment-day,
The faithful servant's words to say—
“Lord, I have tried, in faithful strife,
To win Thy lambs to light and life;
Lord, I have truly kept for Thee
The awful charge Thou gavest me.”
Scheme | ABXC DBXEX FGFG HBHB XIXI JKJK DCCLL MMNN E EXA OOPP GGNN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00101101010001111110 111 101111110110 1 1 1101011 11110010 11110101 110101 010010101 110111 0110111 110101 11110111 010111 01110101 010111 110111101 1100101 11011101 110101 11010101 110111 11010101 110111 1 1 11111111 11110101 01010111 111101 11111101 011101111 01011101 110100111 11110101 01110101 1111111 01010100 11111101 01010101 11000101 0101111 11110101 11111101 11110111 0101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,557 |
Words | 290 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 5, 4, 1, 3, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 47 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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