Analysis of Olney Hymn 66: I Will Praise The Lord At All Times

William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)



Winter has a joy for me,
While the Saviour's charms I read,
Lowly, meek, from blemish free,
In the snowdrop's pensive head.

Spring returns, and brings along
Life-invigorating suns:
Hark! the turtle's plaintive song
Seems to speak His dying groans!

Summer has a thousand charms,
All expressive of His worth;
'Tis His sun that lights and warms,
His the air the cools the earth.

What! has autumn left to say
Nothing of a Saviour's grace?
Yes, the beams of milder day
Tell me of his smiling face.

Light appears with early dawn,
While the sun makes haste to rise;
See His bleeding beauties drawn
On the blushes of the skies.

Evening with a silent pace,
Slowly moving in the west,
Shews an emblem of His grace,
Points to an eternal rest.


Scheme ABAB CXCX XDXD EFEF GHGH FIFI
Poetic Form Quatrain  (83%)
Metre 1010111 101111 1011101 001101 1010101 101001 1010101 1111101 1010101 1010111 1111101 1010101 1110111 101011 1011101 1111101 1011101 1011111 1110101 1010101 1010101 1010001 1110111 1110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 739
Words 133
Sentences 10
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Cowper

William Macquarie Cowper was an Australian Anglican archdeacon and Dean of Sydney. more…

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