Analysis of The Innocence of Infancy
John Bowring 1792 (Exeter) – 1872 (Claremont, Devon)
With gentle words and gracious look,
The loving Saviour spoke and smiled;
When in His welcoming arms He took
A happy child, and blessed the child.
For childhood's earliest day begins
In the bright heaven of innocence,
Ere wand'ring thoughts or tempting sins
Seduce its erring footsteps thence.
Would that, as following years roll on,
Life's infant brightness might endure,
And leave us, when those years are gone,
Pure, as a happy child is pure!
O God! who veil'st the future o'er,
Through whose thick darkness none can see,
Protect, preserve, redeem, restore
The innocence of infancy.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX XDXD XEXE |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11010101 0101101 101100111 01010101 11100101 001101100 11111101 0111011 111100111 11010101 01111111 11010111 1111101010 11110111 01010101 01001100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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