Analysis of The Dwelling-Place
Henry Vaughan 1621 (Brecknockshire) – 1695
What happy secret fountain,
Fair shade or mountain,
Whose undiscovered virgin glory
Boasts it this day, though not in story,
Was then thy dwelling? Did some cloud,
Fixed to a tent, descend a shroud
My distressed Lord? Or did a star,
Beckoned by Thee, though high and far,
In sparkling smiles haste gladly down
To lodge light and increase her own?
My dear, dear God! I do not know
What lodged Thee then, nor where, nor how;
But I am sure Thou dost now come
Oft to a narrow, homely room,
Where Thou too hast but the least part:
My God, I mean my sinful heart.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 11110 10101010 111111010 11110111 11010101 10111101 10111101 01011101 11100101 11111111 11111111 11111111 11010101 11111011 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 563 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 430 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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