Analysis of A Song Of Low Degree

Michael Fairless 1869 (Rastrick, Brighouse,) – 1901 (Henfield,)



Lord, I am small, and yet so great,
The whole world stands to my estate,
And in Thine Image I create.
The sea is mine; and the broad sky
Is mine in its immensity:
The river and the river's gold;
The earth's hid treasures manifold;
The love of creatures small and great,
Save where I reap a precious hate;
The noon-tide sun with hot caress,
The night with quiet loneliness;
The wind that bends the pliant trees,
The whisper of the summer breeze;
The kiss of snow and rain; the star
That shines a greeting from afar;
All, all are mine; and yet so small
Am I, that lo, I needs must call,
Great King, upon the Babe in Thee,
And crave that Thou would'st give to me
The grace of Thy humility.


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Poetic Form Etheree  (35%)
Metre 11110111 01111101 00110101 01110011 11011 01000101 0111010 01110101 11110101 01111101 01110100 01110101 01010101 01110101 11010101 11110111 11111111 11010101 011111111 01110100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 667
Words 133
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 525
Words per stanza (avg) 133
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Michael Fairless

Margaret Fairless Barber (7 May 1869 – 24 August 1901), pseudonym Michael Fairless, was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, The Roadmender (1902) became a popular classic. more…

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