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 |
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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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