Analysis of Christ weeps for us
Kelley Davies 1983 (Dallas)
Those ocean wide eyes
Starlit, trickling the tears down his face
Crying for us
Why won't we awaken?
God it hurts
I try to weep with Him, but can't match that ocean of solace and warmth
The Love within Him
And the Lord
| Scheme | X X X X X X X X |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 101001111 1011 111010 111 11111111111011001 01011 001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 224 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 21 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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