Analysis of Hour-Glass And Bible
William Lisle Bowles 1762 (King's Sutton) – 1850
Look, Christian, on thy Bible, and that glass
That sheds its sand through minutes, hours, and days,
And years; it speaks not, yet, methinks, it says,
To every human heart: so mortals pass
On to their dark and silent grave! Alas
For man! an exile upon earth he strays,
Weary, and wandering through benighted ways;
To-day in strength, to-morrow like the grass
That withers at his feet!--Lift up thy head,
Poor pilgrim, toiling in this vale of tears;
That book declares whose blood for thee was shed,
Who died to give thee life; and though thy years
Pass like a shade, pointing to thy death-bed,
Out of the deep thy cry an angel hears,
And by his guiding hand thy steps to heaven are led!
Scheme | ABCAABBADEDFDGD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110011 11111101001 011111111 11001011101 1111010101 111101111 10010010101 1101110101 1101111111 1101001111 1101111111 1111110111 1101101111 1101111101 0111011111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 679 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 528 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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