Analysis of Of The Going Down Of The Sun
John Bunyan 1628 (Elstow, Bedfordshire) – 1688 (London)
What, hast thou run thy race, art going down?
Thou seemest angry, why dost on us frown?
Yea, wrap thy head with clouds and hide thy face,
As threatening to withdraw from us thy grace?
O leave us not! When once thou hid'st thy head,
Our horizon with darkness will be spread.
Tell who hath thee offended, turn again.
Alas! too late, intreaties are in vain.
Our gospel has had here a summer's day,
But in its sunshine we, like fools, did play;
Or else fall out, and with each other wrangle,
And did, instead of work, not much but jangle.
And if our sun seems angry, hides his face,
Shall it go down, shall night possess this place?
Let not the voice of night birds us afflict,
And of our misspent summer us convict.
Scheme | AABBCCXX DDEEBBFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 111011111 1111110111 11001011111 11111111111 10010110111 1111010101 01111101 10101110101 101111111 11110111010 01011111110 01101110111 1111110111 1101111101 01100110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 716 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 273 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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