Analysis of The Angel Of Patience
John Greenleaf Whittier 1807 (Haverhill) – 1892 (Hampton Falls)
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To weary hearts, to mourning homes,
God's meekest Angel gently comes
No power has he to banish pain,
Or give us back our lost again;
And yet in tenderest love, our dear
And Heavenly Father sends him here.
There's quiet in that Angel's glance,
There 's rest in his still countenance!
He mocks no grief with idle cheer,
Nor wounds with words the mourner's ear;
But ills and woes he may not cure
He kindly trains us to endure.
Angel of Patience! sent to calm
Our feverish brows with cooling palm;
To lay the storms of hope and fear,
And reconcile life's smile and tear;
The throbs of wounded pride to still,
And make our own our Father's will.
O thou who mournest on thy way,
With longings for the close of day;
He walks with thee, that Angel kind,
And gently whispers, 'Be resigned
Bear up, bear on, the end shall tell
The dear Lord ordereth all things well!'
Scheme | X XXXXAB XXABCC DDAXEE FFGGHH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01101010 11011101 1110101 110111101 111110101 01011101 010010111 1100111 111011100 11111101 1111011 11011111 11011101 10110111 1010011101 11011101 0101101 01110111 0110110101 1111111 11010111 11111101 01010101 11110111 0111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 874 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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