Analysis of Upon The Sight Of A Pound Of Candles Falling To The Ground
John Bunyan 1628 (Elstow, Bedfordshire) – 1688 (London)
But be the candles down, and scattered too,
Some lying here, some there? What shall we do?
Hold, light the candle there that stands on high,
It you may find the other candles by.
Light that, I say, and so take up the pound
You did let fall and scatter on the ground.
The fallen candles do us intimate
The bulk of God's elect in their laps'd state;
Their lying scattered in the dark may be
To show, by man's lapsed state, his misery.
The candle that was taken down and lighted,
Thereby to find them fallen and benighted,
Is Jesus Christ; God, by his light, doth gather
Who he will save, and be unto a Father.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 1101111111 1101011111 1111010101 1111011101 1111010101 0101011100 0111010111 1101000111 1111111100 01011101010 11111100010 11011111110 11110110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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