Analysis of The Morning Lark
James Thomson 1700 (Port Glasgow) – 1748 (London)
Feather'd lyric, warbling high,
Sweetly gaining on the sky,
Op'ning with thy matin lay
(Nature's hymn) the eye of day,
Teach my soul, on early wing,
Thus to soar and thus to sing.
While the bloom of orient light
Gilds thee in thy tuneful flight,
May the Day-spring from on high,
Seen by faith's religious eye,
Cheer me with His vital ray,
Promise of eternal day.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDAABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101001 1010101 111111 1010111 1111101 1110111 1011101 1101101 1011111 1110101 1111101 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 359 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 278 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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