Analysis of Simple Trust
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
Still, still, without ceasing,
I feel it increasing,
This fervour of holy desire;
And often exclaim,
Let me die in the flame
Of a love that can never expire!
Had I words to explain
What she must sustain
Who dies to the world and its ways;
How joy and affright,
Distress and delight,
Alternately chequer her days:
Thou, sweetly severe!
I would make thee appear,
In all thou art pleased to award.
Not more in the sweet
Than the bitter I meet
My tender and merciful Lord.
This faith, in the dark,
Pursuing its mark,
Through many sharp trials of love,
Is the sorrowful waste
That is to be passed
On the way to the Canaan above.
Scheme | AAXBBX CCDEED FFEEEE GGHEEH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110 111010 11110010 01001 111001 101111001 111101 11101 11101011 1101 01001 1000101 11001 111101 01111101 11001 101011 11001001 11001 01011 11011011 101001 11111 101101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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