Analysis of A Holy Week Song, 1918
Katharine Tynan 1861 (Ireland) – 1931
Now when Christ died for man his sake
A myriad men must die;
His Via Crucis they must take
And share His Calvary.
God keep ye, gallant gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay,
Who share Lord Jesus Christ His pain
Upon this Good Friday!
Now some shall turn and meet His gaze
And say, 'Remember me
When Thou art come to Thine own place
Where ransomed sinners be!'
God rest ye, gallant gentlemen,
For ye are bought with price,
This day there wends a shining train
The way to Paradise.
The day our Lord Christ lay in grave
The dead are piled so high
The field slow-moving like a wave
Sends up a mortal cry.
God love ye, gallant gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay,
For life is born and Death is slain
Upon the Easter Day.
Scheme | abacdEfc xcxcdgfg hbhbdEfe |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 0100111 1101111 011100 11110100 110101 11110111 011110 11110111 010101 11111111 11101 11110100 111111 11110101 01110 011011101 011111 01110101 110101 11110100 110101 11110111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 694 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 185 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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