Analysis of However, We Must Be "Born Again!"



However, We Must Be "Born Again!"
by Rev. Dr. Fred M. Lassonde

Everywhere I look I see even people of the Book

allowing this World to bring them despair

To drag them down as our own world is shook

by the high cost of living becoming a nightmare

Take your eyes off politicians and turn to God

no hope in men for they will only trod

on all of us, as they are power mad and greedy

Worldly powerful men seek to control the needy

If you allow them they will steal your hope

In their arrogance they believe your a dope

Please turn to Jesus while there is yet time

for it is how we are with God that makes us sublime

Turn your eyes Heaven-ward and be God's children

His promises are wonderful and He will keep you then

Our hope is not in this World or is it in men

However, we must be "Born Again!"
©Fred Monte Lassonde


Scheme Ab c d c d b b b b e e f f x a a Ab
Poetic Form
Metre 10111101 111111 1011111010101 0101111101 11111101111 101111001001 11110100111 1101111101 1111111101010 1010011101010 1101111111 01100101101 1111011111 1111111111101 11110101110 11001100011111 1011101111101 10111101 1101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 795
Words 164
Sentences 6
Stanzas 17
Stanza Lengths 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 37
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted on January 15, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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