Analysis of Fishers Of Men
Alfred Noyes 1880 (Wolverhampton) – 1958 (Isle of Wight)
Long, long ago, He said,
He who could wake the dead
And walk upon the sea-
'Come, follow Me.
Leave your brown nets and bring
Only your hearts to sing,
Only your souls to pray,
Rise, come away.
Shake out your spirit-sails,
And brave those wilder gales,
And I will make you then
Fishers of men.'
Was this, then, what He meant?
Was this His high intent,
After two thousand years
Of blood and tears?
God help us, if we fight
For right and not for might.
God help us if we seek
To shield the weak.
Then, though His heaven be far
From this blind welter of war,
He'll bless us, on the sea
From Calvary.
Scheme | AAB B CCDD EEFF GGXX HHII XXBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 111101 010101 1101 111101 101111 101111 1101 111101 011101 011111 1011 111111 111101 101101 1101 111111 110111 111111 1101 1111011 1111011 111101 1100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 580 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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