Analysis of The Bridegroom Of Cana
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)
'There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. . . . And both Jesus was called, and His disciples, to the marriage.'
VEIL thine eyes, O belovéd, my spouse,
Turn them away,
Lest in their light my life withdrawn
Dies as a star, as a star in the day,
As a dream in the dawn.
Slenderly hang the olive leaves
Sighing apart;
The rose and silver doves in the eaves
With a murmur of music bind our house.
Honey and wine in thy words are stored,
Thy lips are bright as the edge of a sword
That hath found my heart,
That hath found my heart.
Sweet, I have waked from a dream of thee,–
And of Him.
He who came when the songs were done.
From the net of thy smiles my heart went free
And the golden lure of thy love grew dim.
I turned to them asking, 'Who is He,
Royal and sad, who comes to the feast
And sits Him down in the place of the least?'
And they said, 'He is Jesus, the carpenter's son.'
Hear how my harp on a single string
Murmurs of love.
Down in the fields the thrushes sing
And the lark is lost in the light above,
Lost in the infinite, glowing whole,
As I in thy soul,
As I in thy soul.
Love, I am fain for thy glowing grace
As the pool for the star, as the rain for the rill.
Turn to me, trust to me, mirror me
As the star in the pool, as the cloud in the sea.
Love, I looked awhile in His face
And was still.
The shaft of the dawn strikes clear and sharp;
Hush, my harp.
Hush my harp, for the day is begun,
And the lifting, shimmering flight of the swallow
Breaks in a curve on the brink of morn,
Over the sycamores, over the corn,
Cling to me, cleave to me, prison me
As the mote in the flame, as the shell in the sea,
For the winds of the dawn say, 'Follow, follow
Jesus Bar-Joseph, the carpenter's son.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010010110011011010101010 111110111 1101 10111101 1101101001 101001 110101 1001 010101001 10101101101 100101111 1111101101 11111 11111 111110111 011 11110101 1011111111 0010111111 111110111 100111101 0111001101 011111001001 111110101 1011 10010101 0011100101 100100101 11011 11011 111111101 101101101101 111111101 101001101001 11101011 011 011011101 111 111101101 001010011010 100110111 10011001 111111101 101001101001 10110111010 1011001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,676 |
Words | 354 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 8, 9, 7, 6, 10 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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