Analysis of The Church of Unbent Knees
Christopher Morley 1890 (Haverford) – 1957
AS I went by the church to-day
I heard the organ cry;
And goodly folk were on their knees,
But I went striding by.
My minister hath a roof more vast:
My aisles are oak-trees high;
My altar-cloth is on the hills,
My organ is the sky.
I see my rood upon the clouds,
The winds, my chanted choir;
My crystal windows, heaven-glazed,
Are stained with sunset fire.
The stars, the thunder, and the rain,
White sands and purple seas-
These are His pulpit and His pew,
My God of Unbent Knees!
Scheme | XABA XAXA XCXC XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110111 110101 01010111 111101 110010111 111111 11011101 110101 11110101 0111010 11010101 111110 01010001 110101 11110011 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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