Analysis of Father of Love, to Thee I Bend
Augustus Montague Toplady 1740 (Farnham, Surrey) – 1778
Father of love, to thee I bend
My heart, and lift mine eyes;
O let my pray'r and praise ascend
As odours to the skies.
Thy pard'ning voice I come to hear,
To know thee as thou art:
Thy ministers can reach the ear,
But thou must touch the heart.
O stamp me in thy heav'nly mould,
And grant thy word appl'd
May bring forth fruit an hundred fold
And speak me justify'd.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EAEA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Pantoum Quatrain |
| Metre | 10111111 110111 111110101 11101 1111111 111111 11001101 111101 1110111 01111 11111101 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 363 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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