Analysis of Clasping of Hands
George Herbert 1593 (Montgomery) – 1633 (Bemerton)
LORD, Thou art mine, and I am Thine,
If mine I am; and Thine much more
Then I or ought or can be mine.
Yet to be Thine doth me restore,
So that again I now am mine,
And with advantage mine the more,
Since this being mine brings with it Thine,
And Thou with me dost Thee restore:
If I without Thee would be mine,
I neither should be mine nor Thine.
Lord, I am Thine, and Thou art mine;
So mine Thou art, that something more
I may presume Thee mine then Thine,
For Thou didst suffer to restore
Not Thee, but me, and to be mine:
And with advantage mine the more,
Since Thou in death wast none of Thine,
Yet then as mine didst me restore:
O, be mine still; still make me Thine;
Or rather make no Thine and Mine.
Scheme | ababaBabaa ababaBabaa |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11110111 11110111 11111111 11111101 11011111 01010101 111011111 01111101 11011111 11011111 11110111 11111101 11011111 11110101 11110111 01010101 11011111 11111101 11111111 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 763 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 268 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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