Analysis of Hymn XXIV: Saviour, If Thy Precious Love
Charles Wesley 1707 (Epworth, Lincolnshire) – 1788 (London)
Saviour, if thy precious love
Could be merited by mine,
Faith these mountains would remove;
Faith would make me ever thine:
But when all my care and pains
Worth can ne'er create in me,
Nought by me thy fullness gains;
Vain the hope to purchase thee.
Cease, O man, thy worth to weigh,
Give the needless contest o'er;
Mine thou art! while thus I say,
Yield thee up, and ask no more:
What thy estimate may be,
Only can by him be told
Who, to ransom wretched thee,
Thee to gain, himself was sold.
But when all in me is sin,
How can I thy grace obtain?
How presume thyself to win?
God of love, the doubt explain:
Or if thou the means supply,
Lo to thee I all resign!
Make me Lord - I ask not why,
How I ask not, - ever thine.
Scheme | XAXABCBC DXDXCECE FGFGHAHA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 1110011 1110101 1111101 1111101 1110101 1111101 1011101 1111111 10101010 1111111 1110111 1110011 1011111 1110101 1110111 1110111 1111101 101111 1110101 1110101 1111101 1111111 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 707 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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