Analysis of Ecce Homo
Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)
A man of sorrows and with grief acquainted,
He bowed His beauteous head to the rude hands
Of Pilate’s hireling bands;
And while beneath their cruel scourge He fainted,
Forgave them, yearning through His shameful smart
Even with a brother’s heart.
And when upon their Roman cross they nailed Him,
With mocking hatred and scorn’s bitter smile,
Hark! How He prayed, the while
Nature’s extremest agony assailed Him—
“Father, Thy mercy unto these renew,
They know not what they do.”
For the great precept of His Christianity
Was always, “Live in charity; yea, live
To love and to forgive,
That so My spirit may through all humanity
Pass ever downward with a widening birth,
Till peace possess the earth.”
Scheme | ABBACCDEEDFF GXXGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110011010 111111011 1111 01011101110 0111011101 1010101 01011101111 1101001101 111101 101100011 1011010101 111111 1011110100 111010011 110101 111101110100 11010101001 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 810 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 277 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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