Analysis of Your Harps, Ye Trembling Saints
Augustus Montague Toplady 1740 (Farnham, Surrey) – 1778
Your harps, ye trembling saints,
Down from the willows take;
Loud to the praise of love divine
Bid every string awake.
Though in a foreign land
We are not far from home,
And nearer to our house above
We every moment come.
His grace will to the end
Stronger and brighter shine;
Nor present things nor things to come
Shall quench the spark divine.
When we in darkness walk,
Nor feel the heavenly flame,
Then is the time to trust our God,
And rest upon His Name.
Soon shall our doubts and fears
Subside at His control;
His lovingkindness shall break through
The midnight of the soul.
Blest is the man, O Lord!
That stays himself on Thee;
Who wait for Thy salvation, Lord!
Shall thy salvation see.
Scheme | XABA XXXC XBCB XDXD XEXE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 1111001 11011 11011101 1100101 100101 111111 010110101 1100101 111101 100101 11011111 110101 110101 1101001 110111101 010111 1110101 011101 11111 01101 110111 110111 11110101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 678 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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