Analysis of The Image Of God (From The Spanish Of Francisco De Aldana)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
O Lord! who seest, from yon starry height
Centred in one the future and the past
Fashioned in thine own image, see
The world obscures in me what once was bright!
Eternal Sun! the warmth which thou hast given,
To cheer life's flowery April, fast decays;
Yet in the hoary winter of my days,
For ever green shall be my trust in Heaven.
Celestial King! Oh let thy presence pass
Before my spirit, and an image fair
Shall meet that look of mercy from on high,
As the reflected image in a glass
Doth meet the look of him who seeks it there,
And owes its being to the gazer's eye.
| Scheme | ABCADEEDFGHFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111101 101010001 10011101 0101011111 01010111110 11110010101 1001010111 11011111010 0101111101 0111001101 1111110111 1001010001 1101111111 011101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 569 |
| Words | 113 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 445 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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