Analysis of Hymn 56
Isaac Watts 1674 (Southampton, Hampshire) – 1748 (Stoke Newington, Middlesex)
The song of Moses and the Lamb.
Rev. 15:3; 16:19; 17:6.
We sing the glories of thy love,
We sound thy dreadful name;
The Christian church unites the songs
Of Moses and the Lamb.
Great God! how wondrous are thy works
Of vengeance and of grace!
Thou King of saints, Almighty Lord,
How just and true thy ways!
Who dares refuse to fear thy name,
Or worship at thy throne?
Thy judgments speak thine holiness
Through all the nations known.
Great Babylon that rules the earth,
Drunk with the martyrs' blood,
Her crimes shall speedily awake
The fury of our God.
The cup of wrath is ready mixed,
And she must drink the dregs:
Strong is the Lord, her sovereign Judge,
And shall fulfil the plagues.
Scheme | A X XBXA XXXX BCXC XXXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110001 1 11010111 111101 01010101 110001 11110111 110011 11110101 110111 11011111 110111 11011100 110101 1101101 110101 01110001 0101101 01111101 011101 11010101 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 675 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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