Analysis of Crucifying

John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)



By miracles exceeding power of man,
He faith in some, envy in some begat,
For, what weak spirits admire, ambitious hate :
In both affections many to Him ran.
But O ! the worst are most, they will and can,
Alas ! and do, unto th' Immaculate,
Whose creature Fate is, now prescribe a fate,
Measuring self-life's infinity to span,
Nay to an inch. Lo ! where condemned He
Bears His own cross, with pain, yet by and by
When it bears him, He must bear more and die.
Now Thou art lifted up, draw me to Thee,
And at Thy death giving such liberal dole,
Moist with one drop of Thy blood my dry soul.


Scheme ABCAADCAEFFEGG
Poetic Form
Metre 11000101011 1101100101 11110010101 0101010111 1101111101 010110110100 1101110101 10011010011 111111011 1111111101 1111111101 1111011111 01111011001 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 596
Words 114
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 444
Words per stanza (avg) 116
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 15, 2023

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John Donne

John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer and a cleric in the Church of England. more…

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