Analysis of Upon the Day of the Holy Innocents
Jeremy Taylor 1613 – 1667 (Lisburn)
Mournful Iudah shreeks and cries
At the obsequies
Of their babes, that cry
More that they lose the paps, then that they die.
He that came with life to all,
Brings the babes a funeral,
To redeem from slaughter Him
Who did redeem us all from sin.
They like Himself went spotless hence,
A sacrifice to Innocence;
Which now does ride
Trampling upon Herod's pride:
Passing from their fontinels of clay
To heaven, a milky and a bloody way.
All their tears and groans are dead
And they to rest and glory fled.
Lord, Who wert pleased so many babes should fall
Whil'st each sword hop'd that every of the all
Was the desirèd king: make us to be
In innocence like them, in glory, Thee.
Scheme | AABBCDEFGHIIJJKKCCLL |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 101101 101 11111 1111011111 1111111 1010100 1011101 11011111 11011101 0101100 1111 100111 1011111 11001000101 1110111 01110101 1111110111 11111100101 1001111111 0100110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 685 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 528 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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