Analysis of Praise and Prayer
Sir William Davenant 1606 (Oxford) – 1668 (London)
PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds,
The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice;
Where Heaven divided faiths united finds:
But Prayer in various discord upward flies.
For Prayer the ocean is where diversely
Men steer their course, each to a sev'ral coast;
Where all our interests so discordant be
That half beg winds by which the rest are lost.
By Penitence when we ourselves forsake,
'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven;
In Praise we nobly give what God may take,
And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven.
Scheme | AXAX XXXX BCBC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 1101011101 011101010 11001010101 11010010101 11010111 111111011 11101010101 1111110111 111100101 1101011110 0111011111 0101011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 540 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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