Analysis of Ever lasting



All our days will pass away,
Under Your wrath brings our years;
To an end like a sighing stray,
That reconfirms all our fears.

Seventy years of our life,
By reason the strength of eighty;
Their span of the toil with strife,
As our hair has turned slaty.

But the sorrow shall be soon gone,
At that time when we fly away;
At the coming of the new dawn,
In seeing the eternal day.

Who considers of the power,
About the anger that you fear;
Because we know not the hour,
As well as the month or the year.

So teach us the number of days,
That we get a heart of wisdom;
How to be righteously always,
Prepared to enter His Kingdom.

How long before You will return,
On Your servant have compassion;
In order to help me to learn,
To have a spiritual fashion.

Satisfy us in steadfast love,
To be glad that we may rejoice;
Along with blessings from above,
Bringing rapture to our voice.

Make us glad being afflicted,
Many years as we see evil;
Never to become addicted,
To the exploits of the devil.

Let Your work be shown unto us,
Of all Your glorious power;
Revealing appearance as thus,
Allowing blessings to shower.

Let Your favor and beauty shine,
Establish the work of Your hands;
Endow us to see Your Divine,
Being decreed through Your commands.

Copyright ©2022 Richard Newton Sherrer


Scheme ABAB CDCD EAEA FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PFPF QRQR F
Poetic Form
Metre 11011101 10111101 11110101 111101 10011101 11001110 1110111 1101111 10101111 11111101 10101011 01000101 10101010 01010111 01111010 11101101 11101011 11101110 1111001 01110110 11011101 11101010 01011111 110100010 101011 11111101 01110101 10101101 11110010 10111110 10101010 1011010 11111101 11110010 01001011 01010110 11100101 01001111 01111101 10011101 10101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,291
Words 287
Sentences 11
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 41
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 22

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Learning to Make This Day Count Psalm 90:9-17

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Written on April 24, 2022

Submitted by richards.77936 on April 23, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:26 min read
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Richard Newton Sherrer

I was born and raised on a farm in Pennsylvania. It was a small family farm that was handed down through 8 generations of Sherrer men until my father; Newton just could not make a living from it any longer. He thought that I would make a better living away from the farm. So, I decided to join the Air Force in 1969 upon graduating from high school. I gained quite a bit of experience and insight on life while in the service. Even though I was only stationed on the east coast of the US, my Air Force career took me to Germany and Korea. After 20 years wearing of the blue uniform, I decided going in a different direction and found myself becoming very diverse in many different fields. Something still seemed missing to me after being separated from the service for about 10 years. The Air Force was a way of life for me, but really missed life in Korea. I found myself changing careers again. Poetry was an interest of his since my days in high school. With returning to the Lord, I felt motivated to write of my Christian beliefs. I started looking at Bible verses and reflecting on my own personal experiences. The Bible was found to be as true today as to when the various books were written. I could see much of what the Bible is teaching us as valid as every in modern time. It felt only natural to me on using his personal experience based on Bible verses and see much of my own life written in the Scriptures. God inspires me what to write about though. I do not claim to be an expert on God or the Bible. I am just a Christian who has become enlightened to write poetic verses from the Holy Scriptures. more…

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