On the Lord's Prayer, No. 3
Then shall ye pray with every hour that flies;Thy kingdom come, and let Thy will be doneOn earth as in the spheres above the sun,When all we hoped and wished shall bless our eyes.Poets shall see their Age of Gold arise,Fairer than feigned in hymn or orison;Yea, all the realm by Adam's sin undoneShall be restored in sinless Paradise.Philosophers shall govern for their ownThat perfect commonwealth whereof they write,The which on earth as yet was never known.Judah to Sion shall return with mightOf greater wonders than shook Pharaoh's throne,From Babylon, to bless the prophets' sight.
Words in this poem
- shall v. i.
- To owe; to be under obligation for. [OE. shal, schal, imp. sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen,]
- orison n.
- A prayer; a supplication. Chaucer. [OF. orison, oreson, oreison, F. oraison, fr. L. oratio speech, prayer. See Oration.]
- undone a.
- Not done or performed; neglected. [Pref. un- not + done.]
- sinless a.
- Free from sin. Piers Plowman.
- commonwealth n.
- A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. [Common + wealth well-being.]
- whereof adv.
- Of which; of whom; formerly, also, with which; -- used relatively.
- shook v. t.
- To pack, as staves, in a shook.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
On the Lord's Prayer, No. 3 is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella, Project Gutenberg ebook #10314, the John Addington Symonds translation; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Tommaso Campanella, On the Lord's Prayer, No. 3, in Sonnets (1878), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #10314, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/campanella-sonnets/on-the-lord-s-prayer-no-3.html, id L27840.
Form and metre
On the Lord's Prayer, No. 3 is 14 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 90%).
See other poems in iambic pentameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 ABBAA-B-CDCDCD fliesA · doneB · sunB · eyesA · ariseA · orison · undoneB · paradise · ownC · writeD · knownC · mightD · throneC · sightD
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Then shall ye pray with every hour that flies; | 10 | ·····/˘/·· |
| Thy kingdom come, and let Thy will be done | 10 | ·/˘······· |
| On earth as in the spheres above the sun, | 10 | ·········· |
| When all we hoped and wished shall bless our eyes. | 10 | ········/· |
| Poets shall see their Age of Gold arise, | 10 | /˘······˘/ |
| Fairer than feigned in hymn or orison; | 10 | /˘·····/˘˘ |
| Yea, all the realm by Adam's sin undone | 10 | ·····/˘·˘/ |
| Shall be restored in sinless Paradise. | 10 | ··˘/·/˘/˘· |
| Philosophers shall govern for their own | 10 | ˘/˘˘·/˘··· |
| That perfect commonwealth whereof they write, | 10 | ·/·/˘····· |
| The which on earth as yet was never known. | 10 | ·······/˘· |
| Judah to Sion shall return with might | 9 | /˘···˘/·· |
| Of greater wonders than shook Pharaoh's throne, | 10 | ·/˘/˘··/˘· |
| From Babylon, to bless the prophets' sight. | 10 | ·/˘····/˘· |
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