Analysis of Bowed With a Sense of Sin
Augustus Montague Toplady 1740 (Farnham, Surrey) – 1778
Bowed with a sense of sin, I faint
Beneath the complicated load;
Father, attend my deep complaint,
I am Thy creature, Thou my God.
Though I have broke Thy righteous law,
Yet with me let Thy Spirit stay;
Thyself from me do not withdraw,
Nor take my spark of hope away.
Mercy unlimited is Thine;
God of the penitent Thou art;
The saving power of blood divine
Shall ease the anguish of my heart.
Then let not sin my ruin be,
Gives me in Thee my rest to find:
Jesus, the sick have need of Thee,-
Thou great Physician of mankind.
In my salvation, Lord, display
The triumphs of abounding grace;
Tell me my guilt is done away,
And turn my mourning into praise.
Then shall I add my feeble song
To theirs who chant Thy praise on high,
And spread with an immortal tongue
Thy glory through the echoing sky.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE FGFG CXCX XHXH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11011111 0101001 10011101 11110111 11111101 11111101 1111101 11111101 10010011 11010011 010101101 11010111 11111101 11011111 10011111 11010111 01010101 01010101 11111101 01110011 11111101 11111111 01110101 110101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 781 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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