Analysis of Psalm 84
Isaac Watts 1674 (Southampton, Hampshire) – 1748 (Stoke Newington, Middlesex)
v.1-4,10, paraphrased
C. M.
Delight in ordinances of worship; or, God present in his churches.
My soul, how lovely is the place
To which thy God resorts!
'Tis heav'n to see his smiling face,
Though in his earthly courts.
There the great Monarch of the skies
His saving power displays,
And light breaks in upon our eyes
With kind and quick'ning rays.
With his rich gifts the heav'nly Dove
Descends and fills the place,
While Christ reveals his wondrous love,
And sheds abroad his grace.
There, mighty God, thy words declare
The secrets of thy will;
And still we seek thy mercy there,
And sing thy praises still.
My heart and flesh cry out for thee,
While far from thine abode;
When shall I tread thy courts, and see
My Savior and my God?
The sparrow builds herself a nest,
And suffers no remove;
O make me, like the sparrows, blest,
To dwell but where I love.
To sit one day beneath thine eye,
And hear thy gracious voice,
Exceeds a whole eternity
Employed in carnal joys.
Lord, at thy threshold I would wait
While Jesus is within,
Rather than fill a throne of state,
Or live in tents of sin.
Could I command the spacious land,
And the more boundless sea,
For one blest hour at thy right hand
I'd give them both away.
Scheme | AXX BCBC DEDE FBFB GHGH IAIA AXAF XXAX AJAJ AIAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 11 010100011011100110 11110101 111101 11111101 101101 1011101 1101001 011001101 110111 1111011 010101 11011101 010111 11011101 010111 01111101 011101 11011111 111101 11111101 110011 01010101 010101 11110101 111111 11110111 011101 01010100 010101 1111111 110101 10110111 110111 11010101 001101 111101111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,193 |
Words | 230 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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