Analysis of Good Shepherd’s Place
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Across the river my paradise waits
A house that becomes my home
With fields and trees and pasturelands
No longer the flock will roam
And if one of these little ones fall
I’ll lift it back up again
There is no curse in God’s kingdom at all
But only good will toward men
The ones on whom His favor rests
Like shepherds out in the field
They’re there to watch and guard and keep
And all the sick to heal
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 010101101 0110111 110101 1100111 011111011 1111101 1111011011 11011011 01111101 1101001 11110101 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 408 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Written on September 26, 2016
Submitted by dawg4jesus on August 18, 2022
Modified on April 27, 2023
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