Analysis of O Earth, Sufficing All our Needs
O earth, sufficing all our needs, O you
With room for body and for spirit too,
How patient while your children vex their souls
Devising alien heavens beyond your blue!
Dear dwelling of the immortal and unseen,
How obstinate in my blindness have I been,
Not comprehending what your tender calls,
Veiled promises and reassurance, mean.
Not far and cold the way that they have gone
Who through your sundering darkness have withdrawn;
Almost within our hand-reach they remain
Who pass beyond the sequence of the dawn.
Not far and strange the Heaven, but very near,
Your children's hearts unknowingly hold dear.
At times we almost catch the door swung wide.
An unforgotten voice almost we hear.
I am the heir of Heaven -- and you are just.
You, you alone I know -- and you I trust.
I have sought God beyond His farthest star --
But here I find Him, in your quickening dust.
Scheme | AAXABXXBCCXC DDXX EEXE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111110111 1111001101 1101110111 010100100111 11010010001 11000110111 101011101 110000101 1101011111 111110101 1011011101 1101010101 11010101101 1101010011 111110111 111111 11011100111 1101110111 1111011101 11111011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 941 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 228 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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