Analysis of On The Truth Of The Saviour
George Moses Horton 1779 (North Carolina) – 1883
E'en John the Baptist did not know
Who Christ the Lord could be,
And bade his own disciples go
The strange event to see.
They said, Art thou the one of whom
'Twas written long before?
Is there another still to come,
Who will all things restore?
This is enough, without a name--
Go, tell him what is done;
Behold the feeble, weak and lame,
With strength rise up and run.
This is enough--the blind now see,
The dumb Hosannas sing;
Devils far from his presence flee,
As shades from morning's wing.
See the distress'd, all bath'd in tears,
Prostrate before him fall;
Immanuel speaks, and Lazarus hears--
The dead obeys his call.
This is enough--the fig-tree dies,
And withers at his frown;
Nature her God must recognize,
And drop her flowery crown.
At his command the fish increase,
And loaves of barley swell--
Ye hungry eat, and hold your peace,
And find a remnant still.
At his command the water blushed,
And all was turned to wine,
And in redundance flowed afresh,
And owned its God divine.
Behold the storms at his rebuke,
All calm upon the sea--
How can we for another look,
When none can work as he?
This is enough--it must be God,
From whom the plagues are driven;
At whose command the mountains nod,
And all the Host of Heaven!
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE BFBF XGXG HIHI JXJX XKXK XBXB LELE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (90%) Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 111010111 110111 01110101 010111 11110111 110101 11010111 111101 11010101 111111 01010101 111101 11010111 0111 10111101 111101 10011101 100111 100101001 010111 11010111 010111 1001110 0101001 11010101 011101 11010111 010101 11010101 011111 001101 011101 01011101 110101 11110101 111111 11011111 1101110 11010101 0101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,240 |
Words | 227 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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