Analysis of The Love Of Christ Which Passeth Kowledge
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
I bore with thee long weary days and nights,
Through many pangs of heart, through many tears;
I bore with thee, thy hardness, coldness, slights,
For three and thirty years.
Who else had dared for thee what I have dared?
I plunged the depth most deep from bliss above;
I not My flesh, I not My spirit spared:
Give thou Me love for love.
For thee I thirsted in the daily drouth,
For thee I trembled in the nightly frost:
Much sweeter thou than honey to My mouth:
Why wilt thou still be lost?
I bore thee on My shoulders and rejoiced:
Men only marked upon My shoulders borne
The branding cross; and shouted hungry-voiced,
Or wagged their heads in scorn.
Thee did nails grave upon My hands, thy name
Did thorns for frontlets stamp between Mine eyes:
I, Holy One, put on thy guilt and shame;
I, God, Priest, Sacrifice.
A thief upon My right hand and My left;
Six hours alone, athirst, in misery:
At length in death one smote My heart and cleft
A hiding-place for thee.
Nailed to the racking cross, than bed of down
More dear, whereon to stretch Myself and sleep:
So did I win a kingdom,—share my crown;
A harvest,—come and reap.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE FGFG HXHX IXID JKJK |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (71%) |
Metre | 1111110101 1101111101 1111110101 110101 1111111111 1101111101 1111111101 111111 111100101 1111000101 1101110111 111111 1111110001 1101011101 0101010101 111101 1111011111 111110111 1101111101 11110 0101111011 1100110100 1101111101 010111 1101011111 11111101 1111010111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,110 |
Words | 213 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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