Analysis of Psalm 71 part 1
Isaac Watts 1674 (Southampton, Hampshire) – 1748 (Stoke Newington, Middlesex)
v.5-9
C. M.
The aged saint's reflection and hope.
My God, my everlasting hope,
I live upon thy truth;
Thine hands have held my childhood up,
And strengthened all my youth.
My flesh was fashioned by thy power,
With all these limbs of mine;
And from my mother's painful hour,
I've been entirely thine.
Still has my life new wonders seen
Repeated every year;
Behold, my days that yet remain,
I trust them to thy care.
Cast me not off when strength declines,
When hoary hairs arise;
And round me let thy glory shine,
Whene'er thy servant dies.
Then in the hist'ry of my age,
When men review my days,
They'll read thy love in every page,
In every line thy praise.
Scheme | XXA ABXB CDCD XXXX XEDE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11 01101001 1110101 110111 1111111 010111 111101110 111111 011101010 1101001 11111101 0101001 01111101 111111 11111101 110101 01111101 11101 1001111 11111 111101001 0100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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