Analysis of What Birthday Gift for Jesus?



I cannot sing enough to show
How much your love has meant
Through all the years I've come to know
That love You freely sent!

I cannot praise You deep enough
To show the way I feel
Through good days and the ones quite rough.
At times they seem surreal.

And I cannot do anything
To celebrate that night,
Except to give you everything
Through love with all my might!


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 11010111 111111 11011111 111101 11011101 110111 11100111 111101 0110110 11011 0111110 111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 365
Words 76
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 96
Words per stanza (avg) 23

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What Can I Give?

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Written on December 13, 2023

Submitted by stevec.24118 on December 13, 2023

Modified by stevec.24118 on December 13, 2023

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