Analysis of Hymn VI: Sinners, Turn, Why Will Ye Die?
John Wesley 1703 (Epworth, Lincolnshire) – 1791 (London)
Sinners, turn, why will ye die?
God, your Maker, asks you why?
God, who did your being give,
Made you with himself to live -
He the fatal cause demands,
Asks the work of his own hands,
Why, ye thankless creatures, why
Will ye cross his love, and die?
Sinners, turn, why will ye die?
God, your Saviour, asks you why?
God, who did your souls retrieve,
Died himself, that ye might live;
Will you let him die in vain?
Crucify your Lord again?
Why, ye ransomed sinners, why
Will you slight his grace, and die?
Sinners, turn, why will ye die?
God, the Spirit, asks you why?
He who all your lives hath strove,
Wooed you to embrace his love:
Will you not his grace receive?
Will you still refuse to live?
Why, ye long-sought sinners, why
Will you grieve your God, and die?
Dead, already dead within,
Spiritually dead in sin,
Dead to God while here you breathe,
Pant ye after second death?
Will you still in sin remain,
Greedy of eternal pain?
O ye dying sinners, why,
Why will you for ever die?
Scheme | Aaxbccaa Aadbexaa Aaxxdbaa ffxxeeaa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011111 1110111 1111101 1110111 1010101 1011111 1110101 1111101 1011111 111111 1111101 1011111 1111101 101101 111101 1111101 1011111 1010111 1111111 1110111 1111101 1110111 1111101 1111101 1010101 10000101 1111111 1110101 1110101 1010101 1110101 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 966 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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