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.


Scheme AAXA XXXXX XXXBXXB
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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Submitted by donka_k on October 09, 2019

Modified by donka_k on September 28, 2020

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