Analysis of Psalm 42 Part 1
Isaac Watts 1674 (Southampton, Hampshire) – 1748 (Stoke Newington, Middlesex)
v.1-5
C. M.
Desertion and hope; or, Complaint of absence from public worship.
With earnest longings of the mind,
My God, to thee I look;
So pants the hunted hart to find
And taste the cooling brook.
When shall I see thy courts of grace,
And meet my God again?
So long an absence from thy face
My heart endures with pain.
Temptations vex my weary soul,
And tears are my repast;
The foe insults without control,
"And where's your God at last?"
'Tis with a mournful pleasure now
I think on ancient days;
Then to thy house did numbers go,
And all our work was praise.
But why, my soul, sunk down so far
Beneath this heavy load?
Why do my thoughts indulge despair,
And sin against my God?
Hope in the Lord, whose mighty hand
Can all thy woes remove,
For I shall yet before him stand,
And sing restoring love.
Scheme | XXX ABAB CXCX DADX XEXE XXXX FXFX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11 0100110111011010 11010101 111111 11010111 010101 11111111 011101 11110111 110111 01011101 01111 01010101 011111 11010101 111101 11111101 0110111 11111111 011101 11110101 010111 10011101 111101 11110111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 786 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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