Analysis of Hymn IX: Sinners, Obey the Gospel-Word!
John Wesley 1703 (Epworth, Lincolnshire) – 1791 (London)
Sinners, obey the gospel-word!
Haste to the supper of my Lord!
Be wise to know your gracious day;
All things are ready, come away!
Ready the Father is to own
And kiss his late-returning son;
Ready your loving Saviour stands,
And spreads for you his bleeding hands.
Ready the Spirit of his love
Just now the stony to remove,
To apply, and witness with the blood,
And wash and seal the sons of God.
Ready for you the angels wait,
To triumph in your blest estate;
Tuning their harps, they long to praise
The wonders of redeeming grace.
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Is ready, with their shining host:
All heaven is ready to resound,
"The dead's alive! the lost is found!"
Come then, ye sinners, to your Lord,
In Christ to paradise restored;
His proffered benefits embrace,
The plenitude of gospel grace:
A pardon written with his blood,
The favour and the peace of God;
The seeing eye, the feeling sense,
The mystic joys of penitence;
The godly grief, the pleasing smart,
The meltings of a broken heart,
The tears that tell your sins forgiven,
The sighs that waft your souls to heaven;
The guiltless shame, the sweet distress,
The unutterable tenderness,
The genuine, meek humility,
The wonder, "Why such love to me?"
The o'erwhelming power of saving grace,
The sight that veils the seraph's face;
The speechless awe that dares not move,
And all the silent heaven of love.
Scheme | XABB XCDD EFGH IIXJ KKLL AAJJ GHXD MMCC XXNN JJFE |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Quatrain (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10010101 11010111 11111101 11110101 10010111 01110101 1011011 01111101 10010111 11010101 101010101 01010111 10110101 11001101 10111111 01010101 01010101 11011101 11011011 01010111 11110111 0111001 11010001 011101 01010111 0100111 01010101 010111 01010101 0110101 011111010 011111110 01010101 01100 010010100 01011111 01101101 0111011 01011111 010101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,349 |
Words | 246 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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