Analysis of Sow in the Morn Thy Seed
James Montgomery 1771 (Irvine) – 1854
Sow in the morn thy seed,
At eve hold not thy hand;
To doubt and fear give thou no heed,
Broadcast it o’er the land.
Thou know’st not which may thrive,
The late or early sown;
God keeps His precious seed alive,
When and wherever thrown.
Thou canst not toil in vain;
Cold, heat, and moist, and dry,
Shall foster and mature the grain
For garners in the sky.
Thence, when the glorious end,
The day of God is come,
The angels reapers shall descend,
And heav’n cry, “Harvest Home.”
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GXGX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 100111 111111 11011111 11101 111111 011101 11110101 100101 111101 110101 11000101 110001 1101001 011111 0101101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 93 |
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) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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