Analysis of Olney Hymn 66: I Will Praise The Lord At All Times
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
Winter has a joy for me,
While the Saviour's charms I read,
Lowly, meek, from blemish free,
In the snowdrop's pensive head.
Spring returns, and brings along
Life-invigorating suns:
Hark! the turtle's plaintive song
Seems to speak His dying groans!
Summer has a thousand charms,
All expressive of His worth;
'Tis His sun that lights and warms,
His the air the cools the earth.
What! has autumn left to say
Nothing of a Saviour's grace?
Yes, the beams of milder day
Tell me of his smiling face.
Light appears with early dawn,
While the sun makes haste to rise;
See His bleeding beauties drawn
On the blushes of the skies.
Evening with a silent pace,
Slowly moving in the west,
Shews an emblem of His grace,
Points to an eternal rest.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX XDXD EFEF GHGH FIFI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 1010111 101111 1011101 001101 1010101 101001 1010101 1111101 1010101 1010111 1111101 1010101 1110111 101011 1011101 1111101 1011101 1011111 1110101 1010101 1010101 1010001 1110111 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 739 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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