Analysis of Freedom in Faith

Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)



HIS MIND alone is kingly who (though one)
But venerates of present things or past
What he believeth good, kneeling to none
Save God and Truth! Who awed not by this vast
And shadowy scheme of Life, but anchored fast
In Love and sitting central like the sun
So gives his mental beams to pierce and run
Through all its secrets while his days may last;
And thus progressive, little faith hath he
For mysteries, till sounding them he hear
The gathered tones of their stirr’d depths agree
With that religious harmony severe
Which anthems to his spiritual ear
The invisible Presence of the Deity.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101110111 110110111 11111011 1101111111 01001111101 0101010101 1111011101 1111011111 0101010111 1100110111 0101111101 1101010001 1101110001 001001010100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 586
Words 107
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 475
Words per stanza (avg) 105
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Charles Harpur

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