Analysis of Prayer
George Herbert 1593 (Montgomery) – 1633 (Bemerton)
Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age,
Gods breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgramage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth;
Engine against th'Almightie, sinners towre,
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
The six-daies world-transposing in an houre,
A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear;
Softnesse, and peace, and joy, and love, and blisse,
Exalted Manna, gladnesse of the best,
Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest,
The milkie way, the bird of Paradise,
Church-bels beyond the starres heard, the souls bloud,
The land of spices; something understood.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010101 1101010111 01010101 0101010101 10011101 011011101 01111011 0111111101 101010101 010101101 1001111 01101110 1101011011 011101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 620 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 496 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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