Analysis of Lord Let Me Live
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Lord, let me live, that more and more
Your wonder world I may adore;
With every dawn to grow and grow
Alive to graciousness aglow;
And every eve in beauty see
Reason for rhapsody.
Lord, let me bide, that I may prove
The buoyant brightness of my love
For sapphire sea and lyric sky
And buttercup and butterfly;
And glory in the golden thought
Of rapture You have wrought.
Lord, let me linger, just for this,--
To win to utterness of bliss;
To see in every dawn design
Proof of Your Providence divine;
With night to find ablaze above,
Assurance of Your love.
Lord, for Your praise my days prolong,
That I may sing in sunny sort,
And prove with my exultant song
The longest life is all to short:
Aye, even in a bead of dew
To shrine in beauty--YOU.
Scheme | AABBCC XDEEFF GGHHDD IJIJKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 11011101 110011101 01110001 010010101 101100 11111111 01010111 110010101 010010 01000101 110111 11110111 111111 110100101 11110001 11110101 010111 11111101 11110101 01110101 01011111 11000111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 856 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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