Analysis of Living and a Dead Faith
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
The Lord receives his highest praise
From humble minds and hearts sincere;
While all the loud professor says
Offends the righteous Judge's ear.
To walk as children of the day,
To mark the precepts' holy light,
To wage the warfare, watch, and pray,
Show who are pleasing in His sight.
Not words alone it cost the Lord,
To purchase pardon for His own;
Nor will a soul by grace restored
Return the Saviour words alone.
With golden bells, the priestly vest,
And rich pomegranates border'd round,
The need of holiness expressed,
And called for fruit as well as sound.
Easy indeed it were to reach
A mansion in the courts above,
If swelling words and fluent speech
Might serve instead of faith and love.
But none shall gain the blissful place,
Or God's unclouded glory see,
Who talks of free and sovereign grace,
Unless that grace has made him free!
Scheme | XXXX ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 01011101 11010101 11010101 01010101 11110101 1101101 1101101 11110011 11011101 11010111 11011101 0101101 11010101 011101 01110001 01111111 10011011 01000101 11010101 11011101 11110101 111101 11110101 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 851 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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