Analysis of Hym To God, My God In My Sickness
Since I am coming to that holy room,
Where, with thy choir of saints for evermore,
I shall be made thy music; as I come
I tune the instrument here at the door,
And what I must do then, think here before.
Whilst my physicians by their love are grown
Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie
Flat on this bed, that by them may be shown
That this is my south-west discovery,
[lang l]Per fretum febris[lang e], by these straits to die,
pmdv3 n='33-11'> I joy, that in these straits I see my west;
For, though their currents yield return to none,
What shall my west hurt me? As west and east
In all flat maps (and I am one) are one,
So death doth touch the resurrection.
Is the Pacific Sea my home? Or are
The eastern riches? Is Jerusalem?
Anyan, and Magellan, and Gibraltar,
All straits, and none but straits, are ways to them,
Whether where Japhet dwelt, or Cham, or Shem.
We think that Paradise and Calvary,
Christ's cross, and Adam's tree, stood in one place;
Look, Lord, and find both Adams met in me;
As the first Adam's sweat surrounds my face,
May the last Adam's blood my soul embrace.
So, in his purple wrapp'd, receive me, Lord;
By these his thorns, give me his other crown;
And as to others' souls I preach'd thy word,
Be this my text, my sermon to mine own:
'Therefore that he may raise, the Lord throws down.'
Scheme | ABCBB DEDFE XGXGG XCXXA FHFHH XIXDI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111011101 1111011110 1111110111 1101001101 0111111101 1101011111 1011111 1111111111 1111110100 1111111111 11111110111111 1111010111 1111111101 0111011111 11110010 1001011111 0101010100 100100010 1101111111 101111111 111100100 1101011011 1101110101 1011010111 1011011101 1011010111 1111111101 0111011111 1111110111 111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,466 |
Words | 252 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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