Analysis of A Prayer For Aid.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni 1475 (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Caprese near Arezzo) – 1564 (Rome)
Deh fammiti vedere.
Oh, make me see Thee, Lord, where'er I go!
If mortal beauty sets my soul on fire,
That flame when near to Thine must needs expire,
And I with love of only Thee shall glow.
Dear Lord, Thy help I seek against this woe,
These torments that my spirit vex and tire;
Thou only with new strength canst re-inspire
My will, my sense, my courage faint and low.
Thou gavest me on earth this soul divine;
And Thou within this body weak and frail
Didst prison it--how sadly there to live!
How can I make its lot less vile than mine?
Without Thee, Lord, all goodness seems to fail.
To alter fate is God's prerogative.
Scheme | A BAABBAABCDXCDX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111 1111111011 11010111110 1111111101 0111110111 1111110111 1111101010 1101111101 1111110101 111111101 0101110101 1101110111 1111111111 0111110111 1101110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 615 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 240 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on May 03, 2023
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