Analysis of Vanity Of The Creature Sanctified
John Newton 1725 (Wapping, London) – 1807 (London)
Honey though the bee prepares,
An envenomed sting he wears;
Piercing thorns a guard compose
Round the fragrant blooming rose.
Where we think to find a sweet,
Oft a painful sting we meet:
When the rose invites our eye,
We forget the thorn is nigh.
Why are thus our hopes beguiled?
Why are all our pleasures spoiled?
Why do agony and woe
From our choicest comforts grow?
Sin has been the cause of all!
'Twas not thus before the fall:
What but pain, and thorn, and sting,
From the root of sin can spring?
Now with every good we find
Vanity and grief entwined;
What we feel, or what we fear,
All our joys embitter here.
Yet, through the Redeemer's love,
These afflictions blessings prove;
He the wounding stings and thorns,
Into healing med'cines turns.
From the earth our hearts they wean,
Teach us on his arm to lean;
Urge us to a throne of grace,
Make us seek a resting place.
In the mansions of our King
Sweets abound without a sting;
Thornless there the roses blow,
And the joys unmingled flow.
Scheme | AABB CCDD XXEE FFGG HHXX XXXX IIJJ GGEE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (63%) |
Metre | 1010101 11111 1010101 1010101 1111101 1010111 10101101 1010111 11110101 11110101 1110001 11010101 1110111 1110101 1110101 1011111 11100111 1000101 1111111 11010101 11011 1010101 1010101 011011 10110111 1111111 1110111 1110101 00101101 1010101 110101 00111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 979 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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