Analysis of The Angel of Pain
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)
Angel of Pain, I think thy face
Will be, in all the heavenly place,
The sweetest face that I shall see,
The swiftest face to smile on me.
All other angels faint and tire;
Joy wearies, and forsakes desire;
Hope falters, face to face with Fate,
And dies because it cannot wait;
And Love cuts short each loving day,
Because fond hearts cannot obey
That subtlest law which measures bliss
By what it is content to miss.
But thou, O loving, faithful Pain-
Hated, reproached, rejected, slain-
Dost only closer cling and bless
In sweeter, stronger steadfastness.
Dear, patient angel, to thine own
Thou comest, and art never known
Till late, in some lone twilight place
The light of thy transfigured face
Sudden shines out, and, speechless, they
Know they have walked with Christ all day.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111 110101001 01011111 01011111 110101010 1101010 11011111 01011101 01111101 01111001 1111101 11111011 11110101 1010101 11010101 0101010 11010111 1101101 1101111 011111 10110101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 766 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 614 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 136 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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