Analysis of Temperance Hymn
John Pierpont 1785 (Litchfield) – 1866 (Medford)
God of our fathers! Thee we praise;
To-day, our grateful thanks ascend:
Accept these thanks-our cheerful lays
With organ's solemn chantings blend.
Thy grace the wretched drunkard found
Cast out, and weltering in his blood;
Now from his tongue doth praise resound-
He owes that praise to thee, O God!
Restored to virtue by thy hand,
The father, brother, son, arise;
From sin and wo reclaimed, they stand,
And swell thy praise with tearful eyes.
The mother, sister, daughter, too,
With tears of gratitude and praise,
Behold the change, and now, anew,
Receive their friends to their embrace.
No longer poverty and shame-
A sad inheritance-are theirs;
Their altered looks aloud proclaim
A happy change in their affairs.
Thanks, thanks, to thee, O God, we give!
What better tribute can we pay?
'T is on thy bounties that we live;-
We praise thee for this festal day!
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE FAFX GHGH XIXI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 111010111 111010101 011110101 111011 11010101 1101011 1111111 11111111 01110111 01010101 11010111 01111101 01010101 1111001 01010101 01111101 11010001 01010011 11010101 01010101 11111111 11010111 111110111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 846 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 10 |
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) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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