Analysis of Hymn For The Use Of The Sunday School At Olney
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
Hear, Lord, the song of praise and prayer,
In heaven thy dwelling-place,
From infants, made the public care,
And taught to seek thy face!
Thanks for thy word and for thy day;
And grant us, we implore,
Never to waste in sinful play
Thy holy Sabbaths more.
Thanks that we hear,--but oh! impart
To each desires sincere,
That we may listen with our heart,
And learn as well as hear.
For if vain thoughts the minds engage
Of elder far than we,
What hope that at our heedless age
Our minds should e'er be free?
Much hope, if thou our spirits take
Under thy gracious sway,
Who canst the wisest wiser make,
And babes as wise as they.
Wisdom and bliss thy word bestows,
A sun that ne'er declines;
And be thy mercies showered on those
Who placed us where it shines.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXEX FGFG HCHC IJIJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 11011101 0101101 11010101 011111 11110111 011101 10110101 110101 11111101 1101001 111101101 011111 11110101 110111 11111011 10111011 111110101 101101 11010101 011111 10011101 011101 011101011 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 740 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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