Analysis of A Child's Evening Prayer
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay,
God grant me grace my prayers to say:
O God! preserve my mother dear
In strength and health for many a year;
And, O! preserve my father too,
And may I pay him reverence due;
And may I my best thoughts employ
To be my parents' hope and joy;
And, O! preserve my brothers both
From evil doings and from sloth,
And may we always love each other,
Our friends, our father, and our mother,
And still, O Lord, to me impart
An innocent and grateful heart,
That after my last steep I may
Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGAH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 11111111 11011101 010111001 01011101 011111001 01111101 11110101 01011101 11010011 01111110 101101001010 01111101 11000101 11011111 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 532 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 410 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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