Analysis of Sunday Morning Bells
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1826 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) – 1887 (Shortlands, London)
FROM the near city comes the clang of bells:
Their hundred jarring diverse tones combine
In one faint misty harmony, as fine
As the soft note yon winter robin swells.--
What if to Thee in Thine Infinity
These multiform and many-colored creeds
Seem but the robe man wraps as masquers' weeds
Round the one living truth Thou givest him--Thee?
What if these varied forms that worship prove,
Being heart-worship, reach Thy perfect ear
But as a monotone, complete and clear,
Of which the music is, through Christ's name, Love?
Forever rising in sublime increase
To 'Glory in the Highest,--on earth peace?'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010111 1101001110 0111010011 1011110101 1111010100 11010101 110111111 1011011111 1111011101 1011011011 110100101 1101011111 0101000101 1100010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 474 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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