Hymns and Tunes 1886 422
Child of sin and sorrow
Words: Thomas Hastings
1Child of sin and sorrow, Where wilt thou flee
Through the long to-morrow,—Eternity?
- Words
- Thomas Hastings
- Scripture
- Hebrews 2:3
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The verse
- Meter
- 10.10
- Foot
- trochaic (DUM-da) · 57% of beats fit
- Rhyme
- AB
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/ stressed · ˘ unstressed · ? not in the dictionary
Verse 1
Child of sin and sorrow, Where wilt thou flee/˘/˘/˘////10A
Through the long to-morrow,—Eternity?/˘/˘//˘/˘˘10B
Counted by machine from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. It cannot hear emphasis or a poet’s licence, so treat it as a place to start reading, not the last word.