Analysis of A Prayer For Grace In Death. Second Reading.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni 1475 (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Caprese near Arezzo) – 1564 (Rome)
Parmi che spesso.
Ofttimes my great desire doth flatter me
With hope on earth yet many years to stay:
Still Death, the more I love it, day by day
Takes from the life I love so tenderly.
What better time for that dread change could be,
If in our griefs alone to God we pray?
Oh, lead me, Lord, oh, lead me far away
From every thought that lures my soul from Thee!
Yea, if at any hour, through grace of Thine,
The fervent zeal of love and faith that cheer
And fortify the soul, my heart assail.
Since nought achieve these mortal powers of mine,
Plant, like a saint in heaven, that virtue here;
For, lacking Thee, all good must faint and fail.
Scheme | X ABBAABBACXDCXD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111 1110101101 1111110111 1101111111 1101111100 1101111111 10101011111 1111111101 11001111111 11110101111 0101110111 010011101 11011101011 11010101101 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 247 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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