Analysis of The Father
Joshua Sylvester 1563 (England) – 1618
ALPHA and Omega, God alone:
Eloi, My God, the Holy-One;
Whose Power is Omnipotence:
Whose Wisedome is Omni-science:
Whose Beeing is All Soveraigne Blisse:
Whose Worke Perfection’s Fulnesse is;
Under All things, not under-cast;
Over All things, not over-plac’t;
Within All things, not there included;
Without All things, not thence excluded:
Above All, over All things raigning;
Beneath All, All things aye sustayning:
Without All, All conteyning sole:
Within All, filling-full the Whole:
Within All, no where comprehended;
Without All, no where more extended;
Under, by nothing over-topped:
Over, by nothing under-propped:
Unmov’d, Thou mov’st the World about;
Unplac’t, Within it, or Without:
Unchanged, time-lesse, Time Thou changest:
Th’ unstable, Thou, still stable, rangest;
No outward Force, nor inward Fate,
Can Thy drad Essence alterate:
To-day, To-morrow, yester-day,
With Thee are One, and instant aye;
Aye undivided, ended never:
To-day, with Thee, indures for-ever.
Thou, Father, mad’st this mighty Ball;
Of nothing thou created’st All,
After th’ Idea of thy Minde,
Conferring Forme to every kinde.
Thou wert, Thou art, Thou wilt be ever:
And Thine Elect, rejectest never.
Scheme | XXAAAXBBCCDDEEXCFF GGBBXB XXHH IIBB HH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100010101 1110101 11010100 1111010 111111 11111 10111101 10111101 011111010 011111010 01110111 0111111 011111 01110101 01111010 011111010 10110101 10110101 1110101 1011101 0111111 1101011101 11011101 111101 1111011 11110101 10101010 11111110 11011101 110111 1011010111 010111001 111111110 0101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,209 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 6, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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