Analysis of By Faith and Not by Sight



To wash or not to wash,
With soap is now the question,
To wait for unseen hands
To come and make an intercession!

The crow can say whatever he wants;
The eagle rules the sky.
And as I walked around the lake,
I stopped to wonder why.

I watched some children playing;
As they flew above the sand,
I thought of how all of God’s elect
Are in his mighty hands.

Blessed is the one that’s not
Controlled by circumstance!
He doesn’t leave his hope and joy
Left merely up to chance!

A job does not affect him
Or a home that he can rent.
He works within the Word of God
And lives within his tent.

If he has clothes and food enough
That he can just survive;
His light will shine upon the world
And cause the dead to rise!

Who is the man that walks like this?
And has such peace inside?
He is the one, who’s saved by faith;
In my Lord, Jesus Christ!


Scheme XABA XCXC XXXB XDXD XEXE XXXX XXXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (57%)
Metre 111111 1111010 111011 11011010 01111011 010101 01110101 111101 1111010 1110101 111111101 101101 110111 01110 1111101 110111 0111011 1011111 11010111 010111 11110101 111101 11110101 010111 11011111 011101 11011111 011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 851
Words 193
Sentences 12
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Written on June 14, 2009

Submitted by dawg4jesus on December 14, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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