Analysis of My God, my King, Thy Praise I Sing

Henry Francis Lyte 1793 (Ednam) – 1847 (Nice)



My God, my King, Thy praise I sing,
My heart is all Thine own;
My highest powers, my choicest hours,
I yield to Thee alone.

My voice awake, thy part to take;
My soul, the concert join;
Till all around shall catch the sound,
And mix their hymns with mine.

But man is weak Thy praise to speak;
Your God, ye angels, sing;
’Tis yours to see, more near than we,
The glories of our King.

His truth and grace fill time and space;
As large His honors be
Till all that live their homage give
And praise my God with me.


Scheme ABXB XXXX XACA XCXC
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 11111111 111111 1101011010 111101 11011111 110101 11011101 011111 11111111 111101 11111111 0101101 11011101 111101 11111101 011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 504
Words 104
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 96
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry Francis Lyte

Henry Francis Lyte was an Anglican divine, hymnodist, and poet.  more…

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