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 |
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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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