Analysis of The Day of The Lord
The Day of the Lord is at hand, at hand:
Its storms roll up the sky:
The nations sleep starving on heaps of gold;
All dreamers toss and sigh;
The night is darkest before the morn;
When the pain is sorest the child is born,
And the Day of the Lord at hand.
Gather you, gather you, angels of God-
Freedom, and Mercy, and Truth;
Come! for the Earth is grown coward and old,
Come down, and renew us her youth.
Wisdom, Self-Sacrifice, Daring, and Love,
Haste to the battle-field, stoop from above,
To the Day of the Lord at hand.
Gather you, gather you, hounds of hell-
Famine, and Plague, and War;
Idleness, Bigotry, Cant, and Misrule,
Gather, and fall in the snare!
Hireling and Mammonite, Bigot and Knave,
Crawl to the battle-field, sneak to your grave,
In the Day of the Lord at hand.
Who would sit down and sigh for a lost age of gold,
While the Lord of all ages is here?
True hearts will leap up at the trumpet of God,
And those who can suffer, can dare.
Each old age of gold was an iron age too,
And the meekest of saints may find stern work to do,
In the Day of the Lord at hand.
On the Torridge, Devonshire,
September 10, 1849.
Scheme | abcbdda efcfgga xxxhiiA cxehjjA xx |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (23%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 0110111111 111101 0101101111 110101 011100101 101110111 00110111 1011011011 1001001 1101111001 11001101 101101001 1101011101 10110111 101101111 100101 1001001001 1001001 1011001 1101011111 00110111 111101101111 101111011 11111101011 01111011 11111111011 00111111111 00110111 10101 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,110 |
Words | 221 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7, 2 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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