Analysis of For ever with the Lord!
James Montgomery 1771 (Irvine) – 1854
'For ever with the Lord!'
Amen, so let it be;
Life from the dead is in that word,
'Tis immortality.
Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him I roam;
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.
My father's house on high,
Home of my soul, how near;
At times to faith's foreseeing eye,
Thy golden gates appear!
In darkness as in light
Hidden alike from view,
I sleep, I wake within his sight
Who looks existence through.
From the dim hour of birth,
Through every changing state
Of mortal pilgrimage on earth,
Till its appointed date;
All that I am, have been,
All that I yet may be,
He sees at once, as He hath seen,
And shall for ever see.
Be Thou at my right hand,
Then can I never fail;
Uphold Thou me, and I shall stand,
Fight, and I must prevail.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI XAXA JKJK |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110101 011111 11011011 10100 100101 101111 11011101 011101 110111 111111 11110101 110101 010101 100111 11110111 110101 1011011 1100101 11010011 110101 111111 111111 11111111 011101 111111 111101 01110111 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 744 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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