Analysis of The Scene Around me Disappears
James Montgomery 1771 (Irvine) – 1854
1. The scene around me disappears,
And, borne to ancient regions,
While time recalls the flight of years,
I see angelic legions
Descending in an orb of light:
Amidst the dark and silent night
I hear celestial voices.
2. Tidings, glad tidings from above,
To every age and nation!
Tidings, glad tidings! God is Love,
To man He sends salvation!
His Son beloved, His only Son,
The work of mercy hath begun;
Give to His Name the Glory!
3. Through David's city I am led;
Here all around are sleeping;
A Light directs to yon poor shed;
There lonely watch is keeping:
I enter; ah! what glories shine!
Is this Immanuel's earthly shrine,
Messiah's infant Temple?
4. It is, it is; and I adore
This Stranger meek and lowly,
As saints and angels bow before
The throne of God thrice Holy!
Faith through the veil of flesh can see
The Face of Thy Divinity,
My Lord, my God, my Saviour!
Scheme | ABABCCDEFEFFFGHIHIJJKLGLGGGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101 0111010 1110111 111010 01001111 01010101 1101010 10110101 11001010 10110111 1111010 11011101 01110101 1111010 11010111 1101110 01011111 1101110 11011101 111101 11010 11110101 1101010 11010101 0111110 11011111 01110100 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 882 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 669 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 160 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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