Analysis of Forget About Lusts
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
There’s only One God that I know!
His nation has no flag.
His people walk until they die!
Their feet they never drag.
If only more would seek Him out;
Their goal to see His face,
Then sorrow would not rule their lives.
On earth they’d see His grace.
But how can I get through to those,
With hearts as cold as stone?
When I start to tell the truth;
They say: Leave me alone!
Alone is where they’ll someday be!
My God is true and just!
If they would just accept His love,
They would forget about their lusts!
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XXXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11011111 110111 11010111 111101 11011111 111111 11011111 111111 11111111 111111 1111101 111101 0111111 111101 11110111 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 515 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Written on September 03, 2009
Submitted by dawg4jesus on November 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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