Analysis of The Refuge, River, And Rock Of The Church
John Newton 1725 (Wapping, London) – 1807 (London)
He who on earth as man was known,
And bore our sins and pains;
Now, seated on th' eternal throne,
The God of glory reigns.
His hands the wheels of nature guide
With an unerring skill;
And countless worlds extended wide,
Obey his sovereign will.
While harps unnumbered sound his praise,
In yonder world above;
His saints on earth admire his ways,
And glory in his love.
His righteousness, to faith revealed,
Wrought out for guilty worms,
Affords a hiding place and shield,
From enemies and storms.
This land, through which his pilgrims go,
Is desolate and dry;
But streams of grace from him o'erflow
Their thirst to satisfy.
When troubles, like a burning sun,
Beat heavy on their head;
To this almighty Rock they run,
And find a pleasing shade.
How glorious he! how happy they
In such a glorious friend!
Whose love secures them all the way,
And crowns them at the end.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GXGX XHDH IXIX JKJK |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (71%) |
Metre | 11111111 0110101 1101110101 011101 11011101 1111 01010101 011101 111111 010101 11110111 010011 11001101 111101 01010101 110001 11111101 110001 1111111 11110 11010101 110111 11010111 010101 110011101 0101001 11011101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 854 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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