Analysis of When all prophecy becomes history

Royston 1946 (Reading)



When Christ has come like a thief in the night
and believing faith has turned to sight.
When all prophesy becomes history
then there will be no need for mystery.

With a great command and a trumpet call
then the Lord will appear before us all.
As heaven opens wide and Jesus bursts through
coming to earth to collect me and you.

For then the Day of the Lord will be here.
and in the sky we will see Him appear
The promised Lord Jesus Christ will have come
to take the Christians with Him back home.

Then He will begin His eternal reign
when Christians have left this earthly plain,
Then forever with the Lord we shall be
secure in Christ for all eternity.


Scheme AABB CCDD XXXX EEBB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 1111101001 001011111 11101100 1111111100 1010100101 1011010111 11010101011 1011101101 1101101111 0001111101 0101101111 110101111 1110110101 110111101 1010101111 0101110100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 653
Words 125
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 131
Words per stanza (avg) 31

About this poem

1 Thessalonians 5:2 - for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

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Submitted by royston on October 20, 2021

Modified on April 01, 2023

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