Analysis of Come and dine with me

Royston 1946 (Reading)



Come now, not because you feel worthy to
but because God calls you to and loves you,
Come now, and break the bread and drink the wine
Come now, to His table and with Him dine.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Balliol rhyme 
Quatrain 
Metre 1110111101 1011111011 1101010101 1111100111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 175
Words 37
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 135
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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