Analysis of To Forgive is Divine

Douglas H Mc Clintock 1934 (Sarnia, Ontario)



To forgive, can people really do it ?
An easy word for us to say,
But we must have the right spirit
In order to put it into play.

God forgives with no trace for Him to see.
But can us mortals do the same ?
With God our guilt has made us free,
He has taken away our hidden shame.

Forgetting  is impossible for most of us to do,
It stays to be remembered in our mind.
Sooner or later, our actions come due.
It's not that we didn't have a clue.

Real forgiveness comes with a lifestyle.
If you have lived your life on a bed of roses
And have never been tried and tested in the meanwhile
Your life is like a book ,never read and always closes.

A friendship that ends never began.
Anybody can be a fair weather friend.
You are like a sift, waiting for the sand
Walking a road that is a dead end.

What goes around, comes around.
Every life will see it someday
Just waiting to be found.
Will we be there or walk away ?
.


Scheme XAXA BCBC DXDD EFEF XGXG HAHA
Poetic Form
Metre 1011101011 11011111 11110110 010111011 1011111111 11110101 111011111 11100110101 01010100111111 11110100101 10110101011 111110101 10101101 111111101110 011011010001 1111011010110 010111001 10001101101 1110110101 100111011 1101101 10011111 110111 11111101 1
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 889
Words 182
Sentences 17
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 117
Words per stanza (avg) 31

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Submitted by Mcclintock on June 29, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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