Analysis of A Vision Of Christ
George Essex Evans 1863 (London) – 1909 (Toowoomba)
There fell on me a dream when days were gray,
And Hope had left me there to grope alone
Amid the silence of an unknown way
Vaulted with night and paved with barren stone,
Wherein such awful stillness held the air,
’Twere comfort but to breathe one’s own despair.
Till in my terror called I Him, who bore
The whole world’s sin upon His sinless soul,
Saying:—“O mighty Heart, whose Godhead wore,
E’en as a garment, all our pain and dole,
Touch Thou my soul with fire; and let there be
Some meed of Godhead even unto me!”
Then from the purple dark I saw arise,
Silent, the pale form of the Nazarene,
With deathless light of message in His eyes,
And that vast human pity in His mien,
Purer than purest depths of summer skies,
Not less unfathomed and not less serene.
“Brother,” He answered, “Wilt thou call to Me
As to a God and worship where I tread?
Cold were the splendour of My victory
If, dowered with Godhead, I for man had bled,
Who fell, a warrior battling in the van,
To prove to men what man can do for man.”
“For thro’ all Ages, on untrodden ways,
Heart-sick and weary in the desperate fight,
Earth shall bring forth the harvest of her days—
Her strong deliverers leading to the light.
And all who follow Truth and who have trod
Her bitter pathways are the Sons of God!”
Scheme | ABABCCDEDEFF GBGHGH FIFIJJ KLKLMM |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111011101 0111111101 0101011011 1011011101 0111010101 1101111101 1011011111 011101111 101101111 11010110101 11111100111 111110101 1101011101 10011101 111110011 0111010011 1011011101 11101101 1011011111 1101010111 100111100 111111111 110100100001 1111111111 11110111 1101000101 1111010101 01010010101 0111010111 010110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,290 |
Words | 248 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 247 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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