Analysis of The Divine Image

William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)



To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
     All pray in their distress;
     And to these virtues of delight
     Return their thankfulness.

For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
     Is God, our father dear,
     And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
     Is Man, his child and care.

For Mercy has a human heart,
   Pity a human face,
  And Love, the human form divine,
   And Peace, the human dress.

Then every man, of every clime,
  That prays in his distress,
   Prays to the human form divine,
   Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.

And all must love the human form,
  In heathen, Turk, or Jew;
   Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell
   There God is dwelling too.


Scheme ABXB AXAX XXCB DBCX DEXE
Poetic Form Quatrain  (40%)
Etheree  (25%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11010101 110101 01110101 0111 11010101 1110101 01010101 111101 11010101 100101 01010101 010101 1100111001 110101 11010101 110101 01110101 010111 11010101 111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 645
Words 110
Sentences 6
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 15, 2023

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