Analysis of The Little Church Round the Corner
'Bring him not here, where our sainted feet
Are treading the path to glory;
Bring him not here, where our Saviour sweet
Repeats for
us
his story.
Go, take him where such things are done
(For he sat in the seat of the scorner),
To where they have room, for we have none,--
To the little church down the corner.'
So spake the holy man of God,
Of another man, his brother,
Whose cold remains, ere they sought the sod,
Had only asked that a Christian rite
Might be read above them by one whose light
Was, 'Brethren, love one another:'
Had only asked that a prayer be read
Ere his flesh went down to join the dead,
While his spirit looked with suppliant eyes,
Searching for God throughout the skies.
But the priest frowned 'No,' and his brow was bare
Of love in the sight of the mourner,
And they looked for Christ and found him--where?
In that little church round the corner.
Ah! well, God grant when, with aching feet,
We tread life's last few paces,
That we may hear some accents sweet,
And kiss, to the end, fond faces.
God grant that this tired flesh may rest
('Mid many a musing mourner),
While the sermon is preached and the rites are read
In no church where the heart of love is dead,
And the pastor's a pious prig at best,
But in some small nook where God's confessed,--
Some little church round the corner.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 11001110 111111011 011 1 110 11111111 111001101 111111111 101011010 11010111 10101110 110111101 110110101 1110111111 11011010 110110111 111111101 11101111 10110101 1011101111 110011010 011110111 011011010 111111101 1111110 11111101 01101110 111110111 11001010 10101100111 0111011111 0010010111 101111101 11011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,286 |
Words | 254 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 14, 11 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 336 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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