Analysis of The Milch Kine Drawing The Ark : Faith's Surrender Of All
John Newton 1725 (Wapping, London) – 1807 (London)
The kine unguided went
By the directest road;
When the Philistines homeward sent
The ark of Israel's God.
Lowing they passed along,
And left their calves shut up;
They felt an instinct for their young,
But would not turn or stop.
Shall brutes, devoid of thought,
Their Maker's will obey;
And we, who by his grace are taught,
More stubborn prove than they?
He shed his precious blood
To make us his alone;
If washed in that atoning flood
We are no more our own.
If he his will reveal,
Let us obey his call;
And think whate'er the flesh may feel,
His love deserves our all.
We should maintain in view
His glory, as our end;
Too much we cannot bear, or do,
For such a matchless friend.
His saints should stand prepared
In duty's path to run;
Nor count their greatest trials hard,
So that his will be done.
With Jesus for our guide,
The path is safe though rough
The promise says, I will provide,
And faith replies, Enough!
Scheme | AXAX XXXX BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI XJXJ KLKL |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 0111 1011 1010101 011101 101101 011111 11110111 111111 110111 110101 01111111 110111 111101 111101 110111 1111101 111101 110111 01100111 1101101 110101 1101101 11110111 11011 111101 01111 11110101 111111 1101101 011111 01011101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 903 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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