Analysis of Hymn XXVII: Saviour, the World's and Mine
John Wesley 1703 (Epworth, Lincolnshire) – 1791 (London)
Saviour, the world's and mine,
Was ever grief like thine!
Thou my pain, my curse hast took,
All my sins were laid on thee;
Help me, Lord; to thee I look,
Draw me, Saviour, after thee.
'Tis done! my God hath died;
My Love is crucified!
Break, this stony heart of mine;
Pour, mine eyes, a ceaseless flood;
Feel, my soul, the pangs divine;
Catch, my heart, the issuing blood!
When, O my God, shall I
For thee submit to die?
How the mighty debt repay?
Rival of thy passion prove?
Lead me in thyself, the Way;
Melt my hardness into love.
To love is all my wish,
I only live for this;
Grant me, Lord, my heart's desire,
There by faith for ever dwell;
This I always will require,
Thee, and only thee, to feel.
Thy power I pant to prove,
Rooted and fixed in love;
Strengthened by thy Spirit's might,
Wise to fathom things divine,
What the length, and breadth, and height,
What the depth of love like thine.
Ah! give me this to know,
With all thy saints below;
Swells my soul to compass thee,
Gasps in thee to live and move;
Filled with all the Deity,
All immersed and lost in love!
Scheme | AABCBC DDAEAE FFGHGI XXJXJX HIKAKA LLCHCI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 110111 1111111 1110111 1111111 111101 111111 11110 1110111 1110101 1110101 11101001 111111 110111 1010101 1011101 110101 1110011 111111 110111 11111010 1111101 111110 1010111 1101111 100101 1011101 1110101 1010101 1011111 111111 111101 1111101 1011101 1110100 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,051 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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