Analysis of The Refreshment
If I could have foreseen this hour,
What terror and anguish I had seen!
And not this time of joy at flower,
Cool waters and a garden green.
All day the battle in the East
Thunders. Dear Angels, keep him well!
His mother sits as to a feast.
O heart of steel invulnerable!
All night I sleep the young child's sleep
And waken to the robin's song,
Blithe as the bird. Dear Angels, keep
My darling the sharp spears among.
Ah now, I know whose Arms enfold,
I rest on such a mighty Heart;
He hides my eyes lest they behold,
In a most heavenly place apart.
Lord, if this ease be but a lull
Ere the deep seas are over my head,
I shall have had, O Beautiful!
This hour joy-filled and comforted.
Scheme | ABAB CXCD EXEX FGFG DXDX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Quatrain (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111110 110010111 011111110 11000101 11010001 10110111 11011101 111101000 11110111 01010101 11011101 11001101 11111101 11110101 11111101 001100101 11111101 101111011 11111100 110110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 673 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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