Analysis of O God! Thou art my God alone;
James Montgomery 1771 (Irvine) – 1854
O God! Thou art my God alone;
Early to Thee my soul shall cry;
A pilgrim in a land unknown,
A thirsty land whose springs are dry.
O that it were as it hath been,
When praying in the holy place,
Thy power and glory I have seen,
And marked the footsteps of thy grace.
Yet through this rough and thorny maze,
I follow hard on Thee, my God:
Thy hand unseen upholds my ways:
I safely tread where Thou hast trod.
Thee, in the watches of the night,
When I remember on my bed,
Thy presence makes the darkness light;
Thy guardian wings are round my head.
Better than life itself thy love,
Dearer than all beside to me;
For whom have I in heaven above,
Or what on earth, compared with Thee?
Praise with my heart, my mind, my voice,
For all thy mercy I will give:
My soul shall still in God rejoice,
My tongue shall bless Thee while I live.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE FGFG HIHI JXJX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 11111101 10111111 01000101 01011111 11101111 11000101 110010111 0101111 11110101 11011111 11010111 11011111 10010101 11010111 11010101 110011111 10110111 10110111 111101001 11110111 11111111 11110111 11110101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 814 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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