Analysis of It's Up To Us
If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. - 2 Chronicles 7:13-14
Forgive us, Lord, for we have strayed.
Just look at all the mess we’ve made.
We have left our first love.
Lord who reigns from above.
We’ve kept our bibles closed on shelves
We’ve become lovers of only ourselves.
We’ve allowed the enemy, to come in.
Help us return from where we’ve been.
Lord, we know Your heart is torn.
From the blood of billions of the unborn.
Lord, we know that it’s not okay.
Just to live anyway.
We’ve become too afraid to offend anyone.
And now our nation has come undone.
It’s up to us Lord, to change our ways.
Let us humble ourselves, and pray.
Your sacrifice was Heaven-sent.
But it’s up to us to repent.
Scheme | X AA BB CC DD EE FF GG XF HH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011111111101010101001111101011100111011111110010101110111101111111001110111100 01111111 11110111 1111011 111101 111010111 10110110001 1010100110 11011111 1111111 1011101011 1111111 11110 10110110110 0110101101 1111111101 111000101 1101101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,000 |
Words | 217 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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