Analysis of Hymn 126
Isaac Watts 1674 (Southampton, Hampshire) – 1748 (Stoke Newington, Middlesex)
Charity and uncharitableness.
Rom. 14:17,19; 1 Cor. 10:32.
Not diff'rent food, or diff'rent dress,
Compose the kingdom of our Lord;
But peace, and joy, and righteousness,
Faith, and obedience to his word.
When weaker Christians we despise,
We do the gospel mighty wrong;
For God, the gracious and the wise,
Receives the feeble with the strong.
Let pride and wrath be banished hence;
Meekness and love our souls pursue;
Nor shall our practice give offence
To saints, the Gentile or the Jew.
| Scheme | A X AXAX ABAB AAAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10001 11 11111111 010101101 11010100 100100111 11010101 11010101 11010001 01010101 11011101 10110101 11101011 1101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 485 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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