Analysis of The Hour Of Prayer
Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1793 (Liverpool, Lancashire) – 1835 (Dublin, County Dublin)
Child, amidst the flowers at play,
While the red light fades away;
Mother, with thine earnest eye,
Ever following silently;
Father, by the breeze of eve,
Call'd thy harvest-work to leave -
Pray: ere yet the dark hours be,
Lift the heart, and bend the knee!
Traveller, in the stranger's land,
Far from thine own household band;
Mourner, haunted by the tone
Of a voice from this world gone;
Captive, in whose narrow cell
Sunshine hath not leave to dwell;
Sailor, on the dark'ning sea-
Lift the heart, and bend the knee!
Warrior, that from battle won,
Breathest now at set of sun;
Woman, o'er the lowly slain,
Weeping on his burial plain:
Ye that triumph, ye that sigh,
Kindred by one holy tie,
Heaven's first star alike ye see-
Lift the heart, and bend the knee!
Scheme | aabcddcC eexxffcC gghhbbcC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101011 1011101 1011101 10100100 1010111 1110111 11101101 1010101 10000101 111111 1010101 1011111 1001101 111111 1010111 1010101 10011101 111111 10100101 10111001 1110111 1011101 10110111 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 746 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 12, 2023
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