Analysis of Hymn XXVIII: Love Divine! What Hast Thou Done!

Charles Wesley 1707 (Epworth, Lincolnshire) – 1788 (London)



Love divine! what hast thou done!
The immortal God hath died for me!
The Father's co-eternal Son
Bore all my sins upon the tree;
The immortal God for me hath died!
My Lord, my Love is crucified.

Behold him, all ye that pass by,
The bleeding Prince of life and peace!
Come, see, ye worms, your Maker die,
And say, was ever grief like his?
Come, feel with me his blood applied:
My Lord, my Love is crucified.

Is crucified for me and you,
To bring us rebels back to God:
Believe, believe the record true,
Ye all are bought with Jesu's blood,
Pardon for all flows from his side;
My Lord, my Love is crucified.

Then let us sit beneath his cross,
And gladly catch the healing stream,
All things for him account but loss,
And give up all our hearts to him;
Of nothing think or speak beside,
'My Lord, my Love is crucified.'


Scheme ababcC dxdxcC exexcC fxfxcC
Poetic Form
Metre 1011111 001011111 01010101 11110101 001011111 1111110 01111111 01011101 11111101 01110111 11111101 1111110 1101101 11110111 01010011 1111111 10111111 1111110 11110111 01010101 11110111 011110111 11011101 1111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 804
Words 159
Sentences 11
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 155
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley was an English leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Methodist founder John Wesley and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley the Younger. more…

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