Analysis of Special Goodness
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
Come and hear all you who fear God,
Tell you what He did for my soul;
A frozen heart that He has thawed,
When embraced as to console.
I cried unto Him from my lung,
In a desperate desire;
While high praise was on my tongue,
For salvation to acquire.
If I cherished iniquity,
Down at the bottom of my heart;
The tempter’s audacity,
Fulfills desire to impart.
But truly the Lord has heard me,
And attended unto my prayer;
Giving me the insight to see,
Through supplication what I share.
For my prayer was not rejected,
Nor was His steadfast love removed;
His mercy and grace reflected,
In my mind that I have behooved.
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Scheme | ABXB CDCD EFEF EGEG XXXA D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111 11111111 01011111 1011110 11101111 0010010 1111111 10101010 11100100 11010111 010100 01010101 11001111 00101011 1010111 11111 11111010 1111101 11001010 0111111 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 663 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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He is Listening Psalm 66:16-20
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