Analysis of Hymn of Sovereign Grace
Augustus Montague Toplady 1740 (Farnham, Surrey) – 1778
Formed for thyself, and turned to thee,
Thy praises, Lord , I show;
No more, with sacrilegious pride,
I rob thee of thy due.
Divested of my fancied plumes,
I throw me at thy feet;
Nor, as a debt, thy favour claim,
But, as an alms, intreat.
Repentance, holiness, and faith.
By which to thee we live,
Are not conditions we perform,
But graces we receive.
Thy Spirit does not offer life,
But raises from the dead;
And neither asks the sinner's leave,
Nor needs the sinner's aid.
Thy power, before the fruit is good,
Must first renew the tree;
We rise, and work the works of God,
When wrought upon by thee.
Each grace of our celestial birth
From thy blest influence springs;
Which plants, and nourishes, and guards,
And to perfection brings.
Gardens of thine, enclosed and sealed,
Thou all our works hast wrought;
And wilt eternal peace ordain
For those thy blood hath bought.
Had not thy love laid hold on us,
We has not loved thee now;
Possess us quite, thou God of grace,
To whom our all we owe!
Scheme | ABCX XXXC XXXD XXDX XAXA XEXE XXXX XXXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (38%) |
Metre | 1110111 110111 1110101 111111 01011101 111111 1101111 11111 01010001 111111 11010101 110101 11011101 110101 0101011 11011 110010111 110101 11010111 110111 111100101 1111001 11010001 010101 10110101 1110111 01010101 111111 11111111 111111 01111111 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 971 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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