Analysis of Heart of God
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
O great heart of God,
Once vague and lost to me,
Why do I throb with your throb to-night,
In this land, eternity?
O little heart of God,
Sweet intruding stranger,
You are laughing in my human breast,
A Christ-child in a manger.
Heart, dear heart of God,
Beside you now I kneel,
Strong heart of faith. O heart not mine,
Where God has set His seal.
Wild thundering heart of God
Out of my doubt I come,
And my foolish feet with prophets' feet,
March with the prophets' drum.
Scheme | ABXB ACXC ADXD AEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111 110111 111111111 0110100 110111 101010 111001101 0110010 11111 011111 11111111 111111 1100111 111111 011011101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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