Analysis of The Temper (II)
George Herbert 1593 (Montgomery) – 1633 (Bemerton)
It cannot be. Where is that mighty joy,
Which just now took up all my heart?
Lord, if thou must needs use thy dart,
Save that, and me; or sin for both destroy.
The grosser world stand to thy word and art;
But thy diviner world of grace
Thou suddenly dost raise and race,
And ev'ry day a new Creator art
O fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers
May also fix their reverence:
For when thou dost depart from hence,
They grow unruly, and sit in thy bowers.
Scatter, or bind them all to bend to thee:
Though elements change, and heaven move,
Let not thy higher Court remove,
But keep a standing Majesty in me.
Scheme | ABBA BCCB DXXD EFFE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1101111101 11111111 11111111 1101111101 0101111101 111111 11001101 011010101 11111111110 11011100 11110111 11010010110 1011111111 110010101 11110101 1101010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 612 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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