Analysis of Maundy Thursday



A full moon at position 10.
Was there such that sorrowful e'en?

Did God shine down on Son with moon
So full the earth that day did swoon?

That sorrowful e'en of Christ's commit'ent,
To purge man's sin in full contentment,

Or agony wrought of not His own,
But ours the sin He did atone.

For me He died upon that tree,
Then rose again from Calvary.

For me and you and all mankind,
Did Christ the Son of God repine.

May ne'er I e'er asham-ed be,
That Christ God's Son did die for me.


Scheme AX BB XX CC DD XA DD
Poetic Form
Metre 0111010 111110011 11111111 11011111 11001111011 111101010 110011111 110011101 11110111 11011100 11010111 1101111 11110111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 508
Words 99
Sentences 8
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 52
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by dougnoel on July 27, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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