Analysis of Psalm 147
Isaac Watts 1674 (Southampton, Hampshire) – 1748 (Stoke Newington, Middlesex)
v.7-9,13-18
C. M.
The seasons of the year.
With songs and honors sounding loud,
Address the Lord on high;
Over the heav'ns he spreads his cloud,
And waters veil the sky.
He sends his showers of blessing down
To cheer the plains below;
He makes the grass the mountains crown,
And corn in valleys grow.
He gives the grazing ox his meat,
He hears the raven's cry;
But man, who tastes his finest wheat,
Should raise his honors high.
His steady counsels change the face
Of the declining year;
He bids the sun cut short his race,
And wintry days appear.
His hoary frost, his fleecy snow,
Descend and clothe the ground;
The liquid streams forbear to flow,
In icy fetters bound.
When from the dreadful stores on high
He pours the rattling hail,
The wretch that dares this God defy
Shall find his courage fail.
He sends his word, and melts the snow,
The fields no longer mourn;
He calls the warmer gales to blow,
And bids the spring return.
The changing wind, the flying cloud,
Obey his mighty word:
With songs and honors sounding loud,
Praise ye the sovereign Lord.
Scheme | xxa Bcbc dede fcfc gaga eheh cici exex bxBx |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (23%) |
Metre | 1 11 010101 11010101 10111 10011111 010101 111101101 110101 11010101 010101 11010111 11011 11111101 111101 11010101 100101 11011111 010101 11011101 010101 0101111 010101 11010111 110101 01111101 111101 11110101 011101 11010111 010101 01010101 011101 11010101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,032 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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