Analysis of What Though I Cannot Break My Chain
Augustus Montague Toplady 1740 (Farnham, Surrey) – 1778
What though I cannot break my chain
Or e’er throw off my load,
The things impossible to men
Are possible to God.
Who, who shall in Thy presence stand,
Or match omnipotence;
Unfold the grasp of Thy right hand
And pluck the sinner thence?
Faith to be healed I fain would have,
O might it now be given;
Thou canst, thou canst the sinner save,
And make me meet for heav’n.
Bound down with twice ten thousand ties,
Yet let me hear Thy call;
My soul in confidence shall rise,
Shall rise and break through all.
Thou canst o’ercome this heart of mine,
Thou wilt victorious prove;
For everlasting strength is Thine,
And everlasting love.
Scheme | AXXX BXBX XXXA CDCD EXEX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11110111 111111 01010011 110011 11101101 110100 01011111 010101 11111111 1111110 11110101 011111 11111101 111111 11010011 110111 1111111 1101001 1010111 00101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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