Analysis of Chorus of Fire

Robert Wadsworth Lowry 1826 (Philadelphia) – 1899 (Plainfield)



O! golden Hereafter, thine every bright rafter
Will shake in the thunder of sanctified song;
And every swift angel proclaim an evangel,
To summon God’s saints to the glorified throng.

O! chorus of fire,
That will burst from God’s choir,
When the loud hallelujahs leap up from the soul,
Till the flowers on the hills,
And the waves in the rills,
Shall tremble with joy in the music’s deep roll.

O! host without number, awaked from death’s slumber,
Who walk in white robes on the emerald shore;
The glory is o’er you, the throne is before you,
And weeping will come to your spirits no more.

O! mansions eternal, in fields ever vernal,
Awaiting your tenantry ransomed from sin,
We’ll stand on your pavement, no more in enslavement,
With home-songs to Jesus Who welcomes us in.

O! Jesus, our Master, command to beat faster
These weary life pulses that bring us to Thee,
Till, past the dark portal, we stand up immortal,
And sweep with hosannas the jasper lit sea.


Scheme ABCB AACDDC AEXE CFXF AGCG
Poetic Form
Metre 1100101100110 110010111 01001100111 1101110101 110110 1111110 101111101 1010101 001001 11011001011 11011011110 1101110101 010111011011 01011111011 110010011010 01011111 111110110010 11111011010 1101010011110 11011011111 110110111010 011101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 986
Words 176
Sentences 11
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 150
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Wadsworth Lowry

Robert Lowry was an American preacher who became a popular writer of gospel music in the mid- to late-19th century. more…

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