Analysis of Not As I will
A drop in the ocean,
a light beam of the sun,
self-centered thought counts not,
but Christ's mind is One.
He spoke hard words,
exposing evil, dethroning self,
he was a stranger among his own,
misjudged, condemned, yet
loved he to the end.
So let ego be dethroned,
Lord, speak the Word,
cut deep and wound
the callous places of the heart,
that Your light may pierce the dark,
and human will, before Your gaze,
as no thing, melt, depart.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010010 011101 110111 11111 1111 0101011 110100111 01011 11101 1110101 1101 1101 01010101 1111101 01010111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 420 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 7 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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