Analysis of A Heavy Price
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
The sound of silence! Who can hear?
The footsteps of the Lord draw near
The trees will tremble; the earth will quake
But not one more step will I take
Until my Adam I have found
The seed of mankind from the ground
A simple little building block
Another Lamb will join the flock
And of His glory there is no end
I loved Him back; He called me friend
Now in the garden we will walk
And all day long we’ll only talk
About the price you had to pay
So, you could wash my sin away
Scheme | XXAA BBCC DDEE FF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110111 0110111 011100111 11111111 01110111 01111101 01010101 01011101 011101111 11111111 10010111 01111101 01011111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Written on September 04, 2021
Submitted by dawg4jesus on April 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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