Analysis of Four Score



I count the mercifullest part of all
God's mercies, in this coil of eighty years,
Is that no sense of being disappears
Or fails; I see the signal, hear the call,
Can calmly estimate the rise and fall
Of moth-like mortals in this "vale of tears";
And all His glorious works--the heavenly spheres,
The ocean, and the earth's unending wall--
Remain, for thought and wonder! Marvellous
Is God's creation, with its endless space
And those inhabited bright worlds by law
Divinely governed, as they shine on us,
Still keeping through all time their ordered place;
I bow my head in rapture and in awe.


Scheme ABBAACBABDEFDG
Poetic Form
Metre 1101111 1100111101 111111001 1111010101 1101000101 1111001111 011100101001 0100010101 01110101 1101011101 0101001111 0101011111 1101111101 1111010001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 601
Words 106
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 465
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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