Analysis of Strong Legs
A man believed his legs were strong,
They'd carried him this far.
Through difficulties, great and small,
That left nary a scar.
He took each step with confidence,
And never knew defeat.
Then he looked back upon his path
When his life was complete.
In his wake were many pitfalls,
A strange sight to behold.
There were pot holes and stumbling blocks,
Where once lay streets of gold.
He asked the Lord how this could be,
"This path, I don’t recall."
It was an unfamiliar road,
Which he knew not at all.
"My son," the Lord said, "can't you see?
You were not on your own.
Faced with your greatest obstacles,
You did not walk alone."
"I was there each time you faltered,
And would not let you fall.
I helped you past each obstruction,
And over every wall."
The man began to understand,
Then looked back at his road.
Many times he would have stumbled,
Had God not born the load.
For when his strength began to fail,
Bled dry from every limb,
He fell into God's open arms,
And the Lord carried him.
No matter what encumbered him,
His path was always sound.
Life's pitfalls couldn't topple him,
Despite unsteady ground.
When the greatest hearts grow weary,
And legs begin to fall.
From there we shall be carried by
The strongest legs of all.
Scheme | XABA XCXC XDXD EBFB EGXG XBXB XFXF XHXH HIHI EBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01011101 110111 11000101 111001 11111100 010101 11110111 111101 0110101 011101 101101001 111111 11011111 11111 1110101 111111 11011111 101111 11110100 111101 11111110 011111 11111010 0101001 0101101 111111 10111110 111101 11110111 1111001 11011101 001101 11010101 11111 1110101 010101 10101110 010111 11111101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,237 |
Words | 234 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
This poem is about the pitfall I've faced in life, and the miraculous way I've survived every one.
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