Analysis of How Graces Are To Be Obtained
John Bunyan 1628 (Elstow, Bedfordshire) – 1688 (London)
The next word that I would unto thee say,
Is how thou mayst attain without delay,
Those blessed graces, and that holiness
Thou dost with so much godly zeal express
Thy love to, and thy longing to enjoy,
That sins and weakness might thee less annoy.
Know, then, as I have hinted heretofore,
And shall now speak unto a little more,
All graces in the person of the Son
Are by the Father hid, and therefore none
Can them obtain but they who with him close;
All others graceless are but only those;
For of his fullness 'tis that we receive,
And grace for grace; let no man then deceive
Himself or others with a feigned show
Of holiness, if Jesus they eschew.
When he ascended to his Father, then
It was that he received gifts for men;
Faith, hope, and love, true zeal, an upright heart,
Right humbleness of mind, and every part
Of what the word of life counts holiness,
God then laid up in him, that we redress
And help might have, who do unto him fly
For righteousness and gospel sanctity.
Scheme | AA BC DD EE FF XX GG XX HH II BC XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111011 1111010101 111001100 1111110101 1110110101 1101011101 111111001 0111100101 1100010101 110101011 1101111111 1101011101 1111011101 0111111101 011101011 1100110101 1101011101 111101111 1101111011 111101001 1101111100 1111011101 0111111011 1100010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 970 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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