Analysis of Joy Of My Life While Left Me Here!
Henry Vaughan 1621 (Brecknockshire) – 1695
Joy of my life while left me here!
And still my love!
How in thy absence thou dost steer
Me from above!
A life well led
This truth commends,
With quick or dead
It never ends.
Stars are of mighty use; the night
Is dark, and long;
The road foul; and where one goes right,
Six may go wrong.
One twinkling ray,
Shot o'er some cloud,
May clear much away,
And guide a crowd.
God's saints are shining lights: who stays
Here long must pass
O'er dark hills, swift streams, and steep ways
As smooth as glass;
But these all night,
Like candles, shed
Their beams, and light
Us into bed.
They are, indeed, our pillar-fires,
Seen as we go;
They are that city's shining spires
We travel to:
A swordlike gleam
Kept man for sin
First
out
; this beam
Will guide them
in.
Scheme | XAXABCBC DEDEFGFG HIHIDBDB XXXXJKXXJXK |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (51%) |
Metre | 11111111 0111 10110111 1101 0111 1101 1111 1101 11110101 1101 01101111 1111 11001 11011 11101 0101 11110111 1111 101111011 1111 1111 1101 1101 1011 1101101010 1111 11110101 1101 011 1111 1 1 11 111 0 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 728 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 11 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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