Analysis of Attractive Wisdom
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
The Lord possessed me at the start,
At His works of His acts of old;
Before the beginning impart,
I was set up to see unfold.
I was brought forth there were not deep,
No springs abounding with water;
As the earth seemed to be asleep,
Since it’s clay and He’s the potter.
Before the mountains had been shaped.
I was brought forth before the hills;
Before all the fields had been draped,
With flowers and crops that God wills.
When He had established Heaven,
I saw when He drew a circle;
He made the sky, air was given,
Fountains from the deep were agile.
He assigned the sea its limit,
So the water might not transgress;
That the waves could only buffet,
At their calming, they would regress.
He charged the basis of the earth,
The foundations of His command;
That the occupants would give birth,
To populate on the dry land.
A master workman with delight,
Happy in a dwelling for man;
It was such a joy in His sight,
Sons and daughters in His plan.
Copyright © 2024 Richard Newton Sherrer
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101 11111111 01001001 11111101 11111011 11010110 10111101 11101010 01010111 11110101 01101111 11001111 11101010 11111010 11011110 10101010 10101110 10101101 10111010 11101110 11010101 00101101 10100111 1101011 01010101 10001011 11101011 1010011 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,001 |
Words | 219 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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The Incarnate Wisdom Proverbs 8:22-31
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