Analysis of The Day Of Judgment
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
When the bearing and doing are over,
And no more is to do or bear,
God will see us and judge us
The kind of men we were;
And our sins, so ugly and heavy,
We shall drag them into His sight,
And throw them down at the foot of the throne,
Foul on the steps of light.
We shall not be shamed or frightened,
Though the angels are all at hand,
For He will look at our burden,
And He will understand.
He will turn to the little angels,
Agog to hear and obey,
And point to the festering sin-loads
With, 'Take that rubbish away!'
Then the steps will be cleared of the burdens
That we threw down at His feet;
And we shall be washed in the tears of Christ,
And our tears bathe His feet.
And the harvest of all our sinning
That moment's shame will reap -
When we look in the eyes that love us
And know we have made them weep.
Scheme | AXBAXCXC XDXDXEXE XFXFXGBG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010010110 01111111 1111011 011110 0101110010 11110111 0111101101 110111 11111110 10101111 111111010 01101 111101010 0111001 011010011 1111001 1011111010 1111111 0111100111 0101111 0010111010 110111 111001111 0111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 797 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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