Analysis of God Rules Alway
Into the world's most high and holy places
Men carry selfishness, and graft and greed.
The air is rent with warring of the races;
Loud Dogmas drown a brother's cry of need.
The Fleet-of-Creeds, upon Time's ocean lurches;
And there is mutiny upon her decks;
And in the light of temples, and of churches,
Against life's shores drift wrecks and derelicts.
(God rules, God rules alway.)
Right in the shadow of the lofty steeple,
Which crowns some costly edifice of faith,
Behold the throngs of hungry, unhoused people;
The 'Bread Line,' flanked by charity and death.
See yonder Churchman, opulently doing
Unnumbered deeds, which gladden and resound;
The while his thrifty tenant is pursuing
The white slave trade on sacred, untaxed ground.
(God rules, God rules alway.)
For these are but the outward signs of fever;
Those flaunting signs, which through delirium burn;
And the clear-seeing eye of each Believer
Can note the coming crisis. It will turn,
For it has reached its summit. Convalescing,
The sick world shall arise to strength and peace,
And earth shall bloom, with each and every blessing
Life waits to give, when wars and conflicts cease.
(God rules, God rules alway.)
This is a mighty hour. No sounds of drumming,
No flying flags, no heralds do appear;
No Wise Men of the East proclaim His coming;
Yet He is coming-nay, our Christ is here!
And man shall leave his fever dreams behind him;
Those dreams of avarice, and lust, and sin,
And seek his Lord; yea, he shall seek and find Him,
In his own soul, where He has always been.
(God rules, God rules alway.)
Man longs for God. Before the Christ we wot of,
With His brief mighty message, came to earth,
Before His life, or creed, or cross were thought of,
The love of love within man's breast had birth.
But blindly, through his carnal senses reaching,
He plucked dead fruit, and nothing has sufficed;
Nor can his soul find rest in any teaching,
Until he knows that he, himself, is Christ.
(God rules, God rules alway.)
Oh, when he knows this truth in all its splendour,
What majesty, what glory crowns his life:
And, one with God, his every thought is tender;
He cannot enter into war, or strife.
His love goes out to every race and nation;
His whole religion lies in being kind.
This is the creed that means the world's salvation;
The birth of christ in every mortal mind.
(God rules, God rules alway.)
Scheme | ababxxaxC dxdxefefC ghgheieiC exexjkjkC lmlmenenC gogopq pq C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101010 1101000101 01111101010 111010111 01110111010 0111000101 00011100110 011111010 11111 1001101010 1111010011 0101110110 0111110001 11010110 1111001 01110101010 0111110011 11111 11110101110 11011101001 00110111010 1101010111 11111101 0111011101 011111010010 1111110011 11111 110101011110 1101110101 11110101110 11110110111 01111101011 1111000101 01111111011 011111111 11111 11110101111 1111010111 01111111011 0111011111 11011101010 1111010101 11111101010 0111110111 11111 1111110111 1100110111 011111001110 1101001111 111111001010 1101010101 11011101010 01110100101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 2,316 |
Words | 426 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 6, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 54 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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