Analysis of A Suffering God
Joseph Horatio Chant 1837 (Stoke Underham, Somersetshire, ) – 1928 (England)
Man is like God in miniature,
When he is at his best;
His motives and impulses pure,
His heart and will at rest;
No conflict in himself is felt,
His light no earthly beam,
While love encircles like a belt,
And conscience is supreme.
As thus endowed a creature may
The keenest sufferings feel;
Not such as rack the frame of clay,
Which art of man may heal;
But pain untold at others' woes,
And deadly blight of sin,
Which right and virtue overthrows,
And blackens all within.
And may not God have suffered much
Ere reached the gory cross?
Did not our woe the God-heart touch?
Did He not feel our loss?
The "Man of Sorrows" we adore,
And own His sufferings real;
But suffered He as God before;
For God can sorrow feel.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110100 111111 11001001 110111 11000111 111101 111101 010101 11010101 0101001 11110111 111111 11011101 010111 1101010 010101 01111101 110101 111010111 1111101 01110101 0111001 11011101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 699 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 185 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 25, 2023
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