Analysis of Lord, Teach Us How to Pray Aright
James Montgomery 1771 (Irvine) – 1854
Lord, teach us how to pray aright,
With reverence and with fear;
Though dust and ashes in Thy sight,
We may, we must draw near.
We perish if we cease from prayer;
O grant us power to pray;
And when to meet Thee we prepare,
Lord, meet us by the way.
God of all grace, we come to Thee
With broken, contrite hearts;
Give what Thine eye delights to see,
Truth in the inward parts.
Faith is the only sacrifice
That can for sin atone;
To cast our hopes, to fix our eyes,
On Christ, on Christ alone.
Patience to watch, and wait, and weep,
Though mercy long delay;
Courage our fainting souls to keep,
And trust Thee though Thou slay.
Give these, and then Thy will be done,
Thus, strengthened with all might,
We, through Thy Spirit and Thy Son,
Shall pray, and pray aright.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF XGXG HDHD IAIA |
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Poetic Form | Pantoum Quatrain |
Metre | 1111111 1100011 11010011 111111 11011111 1111011 01111101 111101 11111111 110011 11110111 100101 1101010 111101 1110111101 111101 10110101 110101 101010111 011111 11011111 110111 11110011 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 749 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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