Analysis of Meditate; Digest
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Settle down and stay around
You might be here awhile
Build a house and live in it
I’ll teach you how to smile
I have a little business yet
Good work for you to do
Teach others how to worship Me
The way that I taught you
Teach them how to listen
So they’ll hear what I command
Then teach them how to trust in Me
And not to trust in man
I’m giving you a job to do
And if you do it well
Your praise will be only from Me
And they won’t go to hell
| Scheme | XAXA XBCB XXCX BDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 1010101 111101 1010101 111111 11010101 111111 11011101 011111 111110 1111101 11111101 011101 11010111 011111 11111011 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 453 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Written on May 07, 2010
Submitted by dawg4jesus on March 19, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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