Analysis of What God is like to him I serve

Anne Bradstreet 1612 (Northampton) – 1672 (Andover)



What God is like to him I serve,
What Saviour like to mine?
O, never let me from thee swerue,
For truly I am thine.
My thankfull mouth shall speak thy praise,
My Tongue shall talk of Thee:
On High my heart, O, doe thou raise,
For what thou'st done for me.
Goe, Worldlings, to your Vanities,
And heathen to your Gods;
Let them help in Adversities,
And sanctefye their rods.
My God he is not like to yours,
Your selves shall Judges bee;
I find his Love, I know his Pow'r,
A Succourer of mee.
He is not man that he should lye,
Nor son of man to vnsay;
His word he plighted hath on high,
And I shall liue for aye.
And for his sake that faithfull is,
That dy'd but now doth liue,
The first and last, that liues for aye,
Me lasting life shall giue.


Scheme ABCBDEDEFGDGHECEIDIIJKIL
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 11111 11011111 110111 1111111 111111 11111111 1111111 1111100 010111 11101 0111 11111111 111101 111111111 0111 11111111 111111 1111111 011111 0111111 111111 01011111 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 727
Words 151
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 560
Words per stanza (avg) 149
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 12, 2023

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Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet was the first poet and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. more…

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