Analysis of Father Forgive Them
John Newton 1725 (Wapping, London) – 1807 (London)
Father, forgive (the Saviour said)
They know not what they do:
His heart was moved when thus he prayed
For me, my friends, and you.
He saw, that as the Jews abused
And crucified his flesh;
So he, by us, would be refused,
And crucified afresh.
Through love of sin, we long were prone
To act as Satan bid;
But now, with grief and shame we own,
We knew not what we did.
We knew not the desert of sin,
Nor whom we thus defied;
Nor where our guilty souls had been,
If Jesus had not died.
We knew not what a law we broke,
How holy, just and pure!
Nor what a God we durst provoke,
But thought ourselves secure.
But Jesus all our guilt foresaw,
And shed his precious blood
To satisfy the holy law,
And make our peace with God.
My sin, dear Saviour, made thee bleed,
Yet didst thou pray for me!
I knew not what I did, indeed,
When ignorant of thee.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI JXJX KLKL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001011 111111 11111111 111101 11110101 01011 11111101 01001 11111101 111101 11110111 111111 11101011 111101 111010111 110111 11110111 110101 11011101 1100101 11011011 011101 1100101 0110111 1111111 111111 11111101 110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 826 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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