Analysis of A Hymn To My God

Sir Henry Wotton 1568 (parish) – 1639 (chapel of Eton College)



OH thou great Power, in whom I move,
For whom I live, to whom I die,
Behold me through thy beams of love,
Whilest on this Couch of tears I lye;
And Cleanse my sordid soul within,
By thy Chirsts Bloud, the bath of sin.

No hallowed oyls, no grains I need,
No rags of Saints, no purging fire,
One rosie drop from David's Seed
Was worlds of seas, to quench thine Ire.
O pretious Ransome! which once paid,
That Consummatum est was said.

And said by him, that said no more,
But seal'd it with his sacred breath.
Thou then, that hast dispung'd my score,
And dying, wast the death of death;
Be to me now, on thee I call,
My Life, my Strength, my Joy, my All.


Scheme XAXABB CXCXXX DEDEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 111100111 11111111 01111111 11111111 01110101 11110111 11011111 111111010 11011101 11111111 1110111 110111 01111111 11111101 1111111 01010111 11111111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 658
Words 131
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 163
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Sir Henry Wotton

Sir Henry Wotton was an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. more…

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