Analysis of Of Godly Fear
John Bunyan 1628 (Elstow, Bedfordshire) – 1688 (London)
Us godly fear delightful unto thee,
That fear that God himself delights to see
Bear sway in them that love him? then he will
Thy godly mind in this request fulfil.
By giving thee a fear that tremble shall,
At every trip thou takest, lest thou fall,
And him offend, or hurt thyself by sin,
Or cause poor souls that always blind have been
To stumble at thy falls, and harder be
Against their own salvation and thee.
That fear that of itself would rather choose
The rod, than to offend or to abuse
In anything that blessed worthy name,
That hath thee saved from that death and shame;
That sin would soon have brought thee to, if he
Had not imputed righteousness to thee.
I will love them, saith God, and not depart
From them, but put my fear within their heart,
That I to them may always lovely be,
And that they never may depart from me.
Scheme | AA BB XX CC AA XX DD AA EE AA |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1101010101 1111010111 1101111111 110101011 1101011101 1100111111 010111111 111111111 1101110101 011101001 1111011101 0111011101 01011101 111111101 1111111111 1101010011 1111110101 1111110111 111111101 0111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 824 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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