O Blessed Jesus
O Blessed Jesus, and O Nurse of the fair white Lamb,In the dread hour of death it is under your shelter I am;Saints and angels about me in every time, in all places,Leading my soul to the home of the King of the Graces.
About this text
O Blessed Jesus is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poem-Book of the Gael Translations from Irish Gaelic Poetry into English Prose and Verse, Project Gutenberg ebook #46917; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Eleanor Hull, O Blessed Jesus, in The Poem-Book of the Gael (1912), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #46917, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hull-gael/o-blessed-jesus.html, id L11755.
Form and metre
O Blessed Jesus is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets. The lines average 14.0 syllables. 2 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending.
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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 AABB lambA · amA · placesB · gracesB
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. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| O Blessed Jesus, and O Nurse of the fair white Lamb, | 12 | ··/˘········ |
| In the dread hour of death it is under your shelter I am; | 15 | ···/·······/˘·· |
| Saints and angels about me in every time, in all places, | 15 | ··/˘····/˘···/˘ |
| Leading my soul to the home of the King of the Graces. | 14 | /˘··········/˘ |
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