Analysis of The Confidence of Faith
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
You stripped the sheath from your bow,
Calling for many arrows;
You have split the earth to show,
The rivers by the meadows.
The mountains saw You and shook,
As raging waters swept on;
The deep gave forth voice that took,
Its hands lifting high at dawn.
The sun and the moon stood still,
Within their place at the light;
Your arrows had sped to fill,
The flash of glittering might.
You marched through the earth with wrath,
Thrashed in anger the nations;
Killing heathens in Your path,
For having indignations.
You went out for salvation,
Salvation of Your anointed;
Crushing with indignation,
The wicked that afflicted.
You pierced with their own arrows,
The heads of his warriors;
Onto the ground, their blood flows,
Scattering their superiors.
You walked the sea with horses,
The surging mighty waters;
Hearing the trembling sources,
From their sons and daughters.
For as the body trembles,
The sound as the lips quiver;
Hearing my voice that rambles,
My flesh began to shiver.
Rottenness enters my bones,
My legs tremble beneath me;
A pain was causing my moans,
Blurry eyes that could not see.
Because the day of trouble,
Came upon when they invade;
The fig tree fell to rubble,
As the Russians made the raid.
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Scheme | XAXA BXBX CDCD EXEA FGFG AHAH IHIH AJAJ KLKL MNMN J |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111 1011010 1110111 010101 0101101 1101011 0111111 1110111 0100111 0111101 1101111 0111001 1110111 1010010 101011 1101 1111010 01011010 101010 0101010 1111110 0111100 1001111 10010100 1101110 0101010 10010010 111010 110101 0110110 101111 1101110 11011 1110011 0111011 1011111 0101110 1011101 0111110 1010101 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,263 |
Words | 265 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
Rejoice in the LORD Zephaniah 3:9–17
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Written on April 02, 2022
Submitted by richards.77936 on April 01, 2022
Modified on March 23, 2023
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