Analysis of Renewal of Strength
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1825 – 1911
The prison-house in which I live
Is falling to decay,
But God renews my spirit's strength,
Within these walls of clay.
For me a dimness slowly creeps
Around earth's fairest light,
But heaven grows clearer to my view,
And fairer to my sight.
It may be earth's sweet harmonies
Are duller to my ear,
But music from my Father's house
Begins to float more near.
Then let the pillars of my home
Crumble and fall away;
Lo, God's dear love within my soul
Renews it day by day.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXX XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 01010111 110101 11011101 011111 1101101 011101 110110111 010111 11111100 110111 11011101 011111 11010111 100101 11110111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 476 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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