Analysis of Psalm 16 part 2
Isaac Watts 1674 (Southampton, Hampshire) – 1748 (Stoke Newington, Middlesex)
How fast their guilt and sorrows rise
Who haste to seek some idol-god!
I will not taste their sacrifice,
Their offerings of forbidden blood.
My God provides a richer cup,
And nobler food to live upon;
He for my life has offered up
Jesus, his best-beloved Son.
His love is my perpetual feast;
By day his counsels guide me right;
And be his name for ever blessed,
Who gives me sweet advice by night.
I set him still before mine eyes;
At my right hand he stands prepared
To keep my soul from all surprise,
And be my everlasting guard.
| Scheme | AXXX BXBX XCXC AXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
| Metre | 11110101 11111101 1111110 110011001 11010101 01011101 11111101 1011011 111101001 11110111 01111101 11110111 11110111 11111101 11111101 0110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 549 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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