Grace
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 (Boston) – 1882 (Concord)
How much, preventing God! how much I owe
To the defenses thou hast round me set:
Example, custom, fear, occasional slow,
These scorned bondmen were my parapet.
I dare not peep over this parapet
To gauge with glance the roaring gulf beelow,
The depths of sin to which I had descended,
Had not these me against myself defended.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 326 |
| Words | 60 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
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