Analysis of Olney Hymn 34: The Waiting Soul
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
Breathe from the gentle south, O Lord,
And cheer me from the north;
Blow on the treasures of thy word,
And call the spices forth!
I wish, Thou knowest, to be resign'd,
And wait with patient hope;
But hope delay'd fatigues the mind,
And drinks the spirits up.
Help me to reach the distant goal;
Confirm my feeble knee;
Pity the sickness of a soul
That faints for love of Thee!
Cold as I feel this heart of mine,
Yet, since I feel it so,
It yields some hope of life divine
Within, however low.
I seem forsaken and alone,
I hear the lion roar;
And every door is shut but one,
And that is Mercy's door.
There, till the dear Deliverer come,
I'll wait with humble prayer;
And when He calls His exile home,
The Lord shall find him there.
Scheme | XAXA BXBX CDCD EFEF XGXG XHXH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 11010111 011101 11010111 010101 11111101 011101 11010101 010101 11110101 011101 10010101 111111 11111111 111111 11111101 01101 11010001 110101 010011111 01111 110101001 111101 0111111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 738 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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