Analysis of In Nineveh.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
As he of Joppa sought to 'scape
The utterance of the given word,
And dared to get him from the Lord
In a ship down to Tarshish, — know
Thou canst not any burden throw
That was ordained for thee to bear
Though faith may make it light as air.
Though thou within the dust may rave,
Within the dust may rave and curse
Thy being and the universe,
He sends His lightnings still abroad,
Yet plants for thee the shadowy gourd,
And comes so near He leaves a trace
Of beauty on thy bitter face.
Thou canst not lose thyself: thou art
The given word; its utterance too
Is in all thou dost dream and do:
All men must hear it, hearing thee:
Thou canst not 'scape the prophecy
Of thy life here, howe'er thou rave
Between the cradle and the grave.
What if thou wert He, being here —
So much of Him made flesh as can
Find its conception in a man;
Thy very breath His own, and thou
The veriest utterance of Him now?
It is His work: — let thyself be,
And He will cry in Nineveh!
Scheme | ABCDDEEFGGHCIIJKKLLFFMNNOOLP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 010010101 01111101 0011111 11110101 11011111 11111111 11010111 01011101 1100010 11110101 111101001 01111101 11011101 1111111 010111001 10111101 11111101 11110100 11111011 01010001 11111101 11111111 11010001 11011101 01100111 1111111 01110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 946 |
Words | 194 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 740 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 192 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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