Analysis of Only Imagine



You can only imagine
the moment of your birth.
It must be miraculous coming down-to-earth.
You can only imagine
the moment of your truth.
It must be mind-expansion maturing as sleuth.
You can only imagine
the moment of your love.
It must be warm-heart-cockles soaring high above.
You can only imagine
the moment of your fame.
It must be hard-to-believe accepting acclaim.
You can only imagine
the moment of your grace.
It must be God's majesty shining through your face.
You can only imagine
the moment of your death.
It must be out-of-this-world taking the last breath.


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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 553
Words 97
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 451
Words per stanza (avg) 97
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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