Analysis of Change
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Change, change, change, yes change is my friend;
Nothing ever changes on the outside of men.
Before it began it was destined to end,
Thank God for the inside, for a Spirit that mends!
Reality forever stays the same,
Only your perceptions of it change.
You look at it once and then once again,
You look at it twice and then twice times ten,
Nothing ever changes on the outside of men.
The Word never changes, the Word changes you.
Now tell me my love what are we to do?
Change, change, change, yes change is my friend;
It’s the same in the beginning as it is in the end!
Change is the inward struggle to break free from an earthly body.
The glory is to God! He makes it easy to understand!
Scheme | ABax xxbbB ccAa xx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 101010101111 01101111011 111001101011 10010101 101010111 1111101101 1111101111 101010101111 01101001101 1111111111 11111111 10100010111001 1101010111111010 01011111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 693 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Written on July 15, 2005
Submitted by dawg4jesus on February 15, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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