This is an analysis of Salvation Drawing Nearer by John Newton.
Darkness overspreads us here,
But the night wears fast away;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ededfgfg hdhdgfgfXgagagdgd
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,17,
- Metre: 1010011 1011101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1111101 1111101 1111111 1010101 1000101 1110101 1011101 1010111 1010111 1110111 1011001 1010111 00101101 1111111 1110101 1110101 100100101 1010101 1011011 1011101 1110101 1010101 1110101 1011101 1010011 11100101 1111101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
our, their, his, you
