Analysis of David, A Man After God's Own Heart
The Bible says:"the first shall be the last."
David was the last child in the family
of Jesse, his father.
But God chose him to be king,
and rejected the first son, Eliab. God looks at the heart, and not
at physical appearance.
David came to limelight when he slew Goliath,
the renowned enemy of Israel;
the women of Israel eulogized him
above Saul, who grew jealous
and wanted him dead.
God cannot lie; he is not a man;
his words must surely come to pass. Surely David eluded Saul several times.
David, a man after God's own heart had
two good opportunities to slay his enemy, but refrained from such.
"God forbid that I shall touch the Lord's anointed."
Then one fine day, Saul went to battle, and perished with all his sons; there was none to succeed him.
David wept bitterly when he learnt that Saul and his sons had perished in battle.
David became king, and governed in the fear of God.
And when his time came, he died
and his son, Solomon, took over. After Solomon died, his son Rehoboam became king. After Rehoboam, Abijah, his became king. And so on...
Scheme | XXXXXX XABXX XX XXX BA XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111101 10101100100 110110 1111111 001001111110101 1100010 10111111010 0011001100 0101100101 0111110 01011 110111101 1111011110100101101 1001101111 11010011110010111 101111101010 11111111001011111111011 10110011111011110010 1001101000111 0111111 01110011010100111101110111011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,075 |
Words | 217 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 2, 3, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
David was an outstanding character in the holy book. He feared God that he was not willing to slay his enemy, Saul. Because David served God wholeheartedly, the throne never left his family for many generations to come. Our Lord Jesus Christ came from the tribe of David.
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