Analysis of Hymn XXV: Stupendous Love of God Most High!
Charles Wesley 1707 (Epworth, Lincolnshire) – 1788 (London)
Stupendous love of God most high!
He comes to meet us from the sky
In mildest majesty;
Full of unutterable grace,
He calls the weary burdened race,
'Come all for help to me.'
Tired with the greatness of my way,
From him I would no longer stray,
But rest in Jesus have;
Weary of sin, from sin would cease,
Weary of mine own righteousness,
And stoop, myself to save.
Weary of passions unsubdued,
Weary of vows in vain renewed,
Of forms without the power,
Of prayers, and hopes, complaints, and groans,
My fainting soul in silence owns
I can hold out no more.
Beneath this mountain load of grief,
Of guilt and desperate unbelief,
Jesus, thy creature see;
With all my nature's weight oppressed,
I sink, I die for want of rest,
Yet cannot come to thee.
Mine utter helplessness I feel;
But thou, who gav'st the feeble will,
The effectual grace supply;
Be thou my strength, my light, my way,
And bid my soul the call obey,
And to thy bosom fly.
Fulfil thine own intense desire,
And now into my heart inspire
The power of faith and love;
Then, Saviour, then to thee I come,
And find on earth the life, the home,
The rest of saints above.
Scheme | AABCCB DDXXXX BXEFFX XABGGB XXADDA EXHXXH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011111 11111101 010100 1111 11010101 111111 101010111 11111101 110101 10111111 10111100 01111 101101 10110101 1101010 11010101 11010101 111111 01110111 110101 101101 11110101 11111111 110111 11010011 11110101 01101 11111111 01110101 011101 11101010 01011101 0101101 1111111 01110101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,107 |
Words | 213 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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