Analysis of Here Follow Several Occasional Meditations
Anne Bradstreet 1612 (Northampton) – 1672 (Andover)
By night when others soundly slept,
And had at once both case and rest,
My waking eyes were open kept
And so to lie I found it best.
I sought Him whom my soul did love,
With tears I sought Him earnestly;
He bowed His ear down from above.
In vain I did not seek or cry.
My hungry soul He filled with good,
He in His bottle put my tears,
My smarting wounds washed in His blood,
And banished thence my doubts and fears.
What to my Savior shall I give,
Who freely hath done this for me?
I'll serve Him here whilst I shall live
And love Him to eternity.
Scheme | ABAB CDCX XXXX XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11110101 01111101 11010101 01111111 11111111 11111100 11111101 01111111 11011111 10110111 11011011 01011101 11110111 11011111 11111111 01110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 553 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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