Analysis of Live Out the Message
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
Let everyone be quick to hear,
Be slow to speak and slow to wrath;
Doing for the Lord and revere,
Avoiding trials on your path.
Anger of man does not produce,
The righteousness coming from God;
When you would let Satan seduce,
Sinful events to become flawed.
Put away all your filthiness,
Temptations that you have heard;
Along with rampant wickedness,
Receive with meekness of the Word.
The Holy Word to save your soul,
Not just hear but as a doer;
Letting the Lord be in control,
And be a righteous pursuer.
If one is only a hearer,
He sees not his face in a glass;
A reflection in the mirror,
Will only see any trespass.
He looks at it and goes away,
What He looks like he will forget;
Mindless of the Word goes astray,
For he has not confessed his debt.
One who looks at the perfect Law,
The Law of freedom perseveres;
As the doer receives no flaw,
While in the Lord he reveres.
If one thinks being religious,
And never did bridle his tongue;
Deception of being righteous,
Worthless words that are being flung.
Pure religion is undefiled,
Visits others with affliction;
Being unstained as His child,
Never having a conviction.
Copyright ©2022 Richard Newton Sherrer
Scheme | XAXA BCBX BDED FXFG GHGH IJIJ KLKL EMEM CNXN G |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111 11110111 10101001 01010111 10111101 01001011 11111001 10011011 101111 0101111 01110100 0111101 01011111 1111101 10011001 01010010 11110010 11111001 00100010 1101101 11110101 11111101 10101101 11110111 11110011 01110001 1010111 1001101 11110010 01011011 01011010 10111101 101011 10101010 1001111 10100010 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,179 |
Words | 255 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
Hearing and Doing the Word James 1:19–27
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Written on April 27, 2022
Submitted by richards.77936 on April 26, 2022
Modified on April 26, 2023
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