Analysis of Grace At Evening
Edgar Albert Guest 1881 (Birmingham) – 1959 (Detroit, Michigan)
For all the beauties of the day,
The innocence of childhood’s play,
For health and strength and laughter sweet,
Dear Lord, our thanks we now repeat.
For this our daily gift of food
We offer now our gratitude,
For all the blessings we have known
Our debt of gratefulness we own.
Here at the table now we pray,
Keep us together down the way;
May this, our family circle, be
Held fast by love and unity.
Grant, when the shades of night shall fall,
Sweet be the dreams of one and all;
And when another day shall break
Unto Thy service may we wake.
Scheme | AABB CCDD AAEE FFGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010101 0100111 11010101 111011101 111010111 11011010 11010111 1011111 11010111 11010101 1110100101 11110100 11011111 11011101 01010111 10110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 538 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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