Analysis of To the edge of despair worry took me
Royston 1946 (Reading)
To the edge of despair worry took me
and a bottomless pit I could see.
Then an awful chasm opened wide
and I felt myself falling inside.
Slipping and sliding as I went down
and in the bleakness began to drown.
I dreaded what was happening to me.
For all dark and sombre it seemed to be.
Then deeper and deeper down I fell
and I thought I'd fallen into hell.
How long I was there I do not know
for each day dragged by so very slow.
When at rock bottom I called out
to the Lord my God Who heard my shout,
and in the depth He reached down to me,
lifting me out and setting me free.
Scheme | AABB CCAA DDEE FFAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1011011011 001001111 111010101 01111001 100101111 000100111 1101110011 111011111 110010111 011110011 111111111 111111101 11110111 101111111 000111111 101101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 577 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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