Analysis of To Seek Thy Heavenly Place
To seek thy heavenly place, we journey forth,
With faith as our guide, from south to north,
In quest of solace, grace, and endless light,
A path to the divine, both day and night.
Through rugged trails, across the rolling seas,
With whispered prayers upon the gentle breeze,
We traverse mountains, valleys, and wide open space,
To seek thy heavenly place, we find our grace.
With hearts attuned to the sacred call,
In our devotion, we surrender all,
To touch the realms where angels sing,
To seek thy heavenly place, a sacred offering.
In the cathedral of nature, we find our shrine,
Beneath the stars, in the moon's soft sign,
To reach that sacred space, we set our pace,
To seek thy heavenly place, our souls embrace.
With each step taken, our spirits rise,
In the vast expanse, beneath the open skies,
We find thy presence, in every living face,
To seek thy heavenly place, we find our grace.
The journey may be long, the way unclear,
But we're drawn closer, with each passing year,
For in the quest, our souls find their trace,
To seek thy heavenly place, our eternal embrace.
In this sacred journey, we shall find,
Thy heavenly place, the presence divine,
And as we seek with love, in every space,
We'll find thy heavenly place, in endless grace.
Scheme | aabb ccdD eeff ggdd hhdD iidd xgdd |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 11110011101 1111011111 0111010101 0110011101 1101010101 1101010101 110101001101 111100111101 110110101 01001010101 11011101 1111001010100 0001011011101 010100111 11110111101 111100110101 1111010101 00101010101 111100100101 111100111101 0101110101 1111011101 1001101111 11110011001001 011010111 1100101001 01111101001 11110010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,257 |
Words | 255 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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