Analysis of Bartimaeus
John Newton 1725 (Wapping, London) – 1807 (London)
Mercy, O thou Son of David!
Thus blind Bartimaeus prayed;
Others by thy word are saved,
Now to me afford thine aid:
Many for his crying chid him,
But he called the louder still;
Till the gracious Saviour bid him
Come, and ask me what you will.
Money was not what he wanted,
Though by begging used to live;
But he asked, and Jesus granted
Alms, which none but he could give:
Lord remove this grievous blindness,
Let my eyes behold the day;
Strait he saw, and won by kindness,
Followed Jesus in the way.
O! methinks I hear him praising,
Publishing to all around;
Friends, is not my case amazing?
What a Saviour I have found:
O! that all the blind but knew him,
And would be advised by me!
Surely, would they hasten to him,
He would cause them all to see.
Scheme | XAXABCBC DXDXEFEF GHGHBIBI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111110 1111 1011111 1110111 10111011 1110101 1010111 1011111 10111110 1110111 11101010 1111111 10111010 1110101 11101110 1010001 1111110 1001101 11111010 101111 11101111 0110111 10111011 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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