Analysis of More With Us Than With Them
John Newton 1725 (Wapping, London) – 1807 (London)
Alas! Elisha's servant cried,
When he the Syrian army spied,
But he was soon released from care,
In answer to the prophet's prayer.
Straitway he saw, with other eyes,
A greater army from the skies;
A fiery guard around the hill,
Thus are the saints preserved still.
When Satan and his host appear,
Like him of old, I faint and fear;
Like him, by faith, with joy I see,
A greater host engaged for me.
The saints espouse my cause by prayer,
The angels make my soul their care;
Mine is the promise sealed with blood,
And Jesus lives to make it good.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF BBXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 011101 110100101 11110111 0101011 1111101 01010101 010010101 1101011 11001101 11111101 11111111 01010111 01011111 01011111 11010111 01011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 542 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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