Analysis of Go Not Far From Me, O My God
Anna Laetitia Waring 1823 (Neath) – 1910
Go not far from me, O my God,
Whom all my times obey;
Take from me anything Thou wilt,
But go not Thou away,
And let the storm that does thy work
Deal with me as it may.
On thy compassion I repose
In weakness and distress:
I will not ask for greater ease,
Lest I should love Thee less.
Oh, 'tis a blessed thing for me
To need thy tenderness.
When I am feeble as a child,
And flesh and heart give way,
Then on thy everlasting strength
With passive trust I stay,
And the rough wind becomes a song;
The darkness shines like day.
Deep unto deep may call, but I
With peaceful heart can say,
Thy loving-kindness hath a charge
No waves can take away:
Then let the storm that speeds me home
Deal with me as it may.
Scheme | xaxaxA xbxbxx xaxaxa xaxaxA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 111101 1111011 111101 01011111 111111 11010101 010001 11111101 111111 1101111 111100 11110101 010111 1110101 110111 00110101 010111 11011111 110111 11010101 111101 11011111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 693 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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