Analysis of Truth And Divine Love Rejected By The World
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
O love, of pure and heavenly birth!
O simple truth, scarce known on earth!
Whom men resist with stubborn will;
And, more perverse and daring still,
Smother and quench, with reasonings vain,
While error and deception reign.
Whence comes it, that, your power the same
As His on high from whence you came,
Ye rarely find a listening ear,
Or heart that makes you welcome here?—
Because ye bring reproach and pain,
Where'er ye visit, in your train.
The world is proud, and cannot bear
The scorn and calumny ye share;
The praise of men the mark they mean,
They fly the place where ye are seen;
Pure love, with scandal in the rear,
Suits not the vain; it costs too dear.
Then, let the price be what it may,
Though poor, I am prepared to pay;
Come shame, come sorrow; spite of tears,
Weakness, and heart–oppressing fears;
One soul, as least, shall not repine,
To give you room; come, reign in mine!
Scheme | AABBCC DDEECC FFGGHH IIXXCX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101001 11011111 11011101 01010101 1001111 11000101 111111001 11111111 110101001 11111101 01110101 10110011 01110101 01010011 01110111 11011111 11110001 11011111 11011111 11110111 11110111 10010101 1111111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 879 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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