Analysis of Father, Father Abraham
James Weldon Johnson 1871 (Jacksonville) – 1938 (Wiscasset)
(On the Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth)
Father, Father Abraham,
Today look on us from above;
On us, the offspring of thy faith,
The children of thy Christ-like love.
For that which we have humbly wrought,
Give us today thy kindly smile;
Wherein we've failed or fallen short,
Bear with us, Father, yet awhile.
Father, Father Abraham,
Today we lift our hearts to thee,
Filled with the thought of what great price
Was paid, that we might ransomed be.
Today we consecrate ourselves
Anew in hand and heart and brain,
To send this judgment down the years:
The ransom was not paid in vain.
Scheme | x Abxb xcxc Adxd xexe |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001001101 101010 01111101 1101111 01011111 11111101 11011101 01111101 11110101 101010 011110111 11011111 1111111 01110001 01010101 11110101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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