Analysis of Far From My Heavenly Home
Henry Francis Lyte 1793 (Ednam) – 1847 (Nice)
Far from my heavenly home,
Far from my Father’s breast,
Fainting I cry, blest Spirit, come
And speed me to my rest.
My spirit homeward turns
And fain would thither flee;
My heart, O Zion, droops and yearns,
When I remember thee.
To thee, to thee I press,
A dark and toilsome road;
When shall I pass the wilderness,
And reach the saint’s abode?
God of my life, be near;
On Thee my hopes I cast:
O guide me through the desert here,
And bring me home at last.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC XDXD XEXE |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111001 111101 10111101 011111 110101 01111 11110101 110101 111111 01011 11110100 010101 111111 111111 11110101 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 453 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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