Analysis of Guyon
Douglas Blair 1951 (London)
I am here for
About the Lord.
And in so doing
I have clung
To Holy Writ.
No Pope's tradition.
Not a bit.
No feigned reticence
Fear to show.
I, determined Him
Him to know.
Jesus, bearer of
All my dismal loads.
The Law that goads
And tries to
See me criminal
The chill, the darkness
The friendships gone.
But I have One
Replacing all the rest
The kindest, nearest
Teacher, the best.
And He will visit
He does so sweet.
And I have savoured
Each Holy Treat.
So, come the achings
And shivering Night.
Mine the ordinance
To pray, to fight.
These bars to hold
These bars to scold.
But broad the vistas
By Faith I'm told.
*Madame Jeanne Marie Guyon, 1648-1717. French mystic and poet much persecuted by Roman Catholicism. Imprisoned, wasting, supremely reflective.
Scheme | X A X X B C B D E X E X X D X X X X C F X F X G A G D H D H I I X I X |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (57%) |
Metre | 1111 0101 00110 111 1101 11010 101 11100 111 10101 111 10101 11101 0111 011 11100 01010 0101 1111 010101 01010 1001 01110 1111 0111 1101 1101 01001 10100 1111 1111 1111 11010 1111 101011011001011001100100010100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 881 |
Words | 210 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 35 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 17 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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Written on December 02, 2022
Submitted by dougb.72572 on December 07, 2022
Modified by dougb.72572 on December 15, 2022
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