Analysis of Hymn
Sir Henry Newbolt 1862 (Bilston, Staffordshire) – 1938 (Kensington, London)
In The Time Of War And Tumults
O Lord Almighty, Thou whose hands
Despair and victory give;
In whom, though tyrants tread their lands,
The souls of nations live;
Thou wilt not turn Thy face away
From those who work Thy will,
But send Thy peace on hearts that pray,
And guard Thy people still.
Remember not the days of shame,
The hands with rapine dyed,
The wavering will, the baser aim,
The brute material pride:
Remember, Lord, the years of faith,
The spirits humbly brave,
The strength that died defying death,
The love that loved the slave:
The race that strove to rule Thine earth
With equal laws unbought: .
Who bore for Truth the pangs of birth,
And brake the bonds of Thought.
Remember how, since time began,
Thy dark eternal mind
Through lives of men that fear not man
ls light for all mankind.
Thou wilt not turn Thy face away
From those who work Thy will,
But send Thy strength on hearts that pray
For strength to serve Thee still.
Scheme | a axax BCbc dede xfxf gegx hihi BCbc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0011101 11010111 0101001 01110111 011101 11111101 111111 11111111 011101 01010111 01111 010010101 0101001 01010111 010101 01110101 011101 01111111 11011 11110111 010111 01011101 110101 11111111 1111111 11111101 111111 11111111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 920 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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