Analysis of Let It Rain.

Douglas Blair 1951 (London)



LET IT RAIN

The burning of the fire

The choking of the flood

The times when cruel Adversity

Turned goodness into mud.

I knew your Fatherly passion

But whither has it gone.

You seem now to be elsewhere

Oh Father God please come.

Now Jesus knows my being

My circumstance and pain.

He intercedes so sweetly.

So Father, LET IT RAIN.

With mercy and with guidance

With retribution too.

I watch those demons fleeing

And cheer as You pursue.


Scheme A X B C B X X X X D A C A X E D E
Poetic Form
Metre 111 0101010 010101 011100100 110011 11110010 110111 111111 110111 1101110 11001 11110 110111 1100110 10101 1111010 011101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 451
Words 104
Sentences 8
Stanzas 17
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 20
Words per stanza (avg) 5

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Read Psalms 84 and 91 and 121, OK?

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Douglas Blair

Blogging poems since 2008. Once a lawyer in general practice. Then 32 years as Shipper in a heavy metal fabricating plant. Retired 2022. Married and father of two. Poet. Hiker. Harmonica Busker. Gospel enthusiast. Photographer. http://shootdempix.blogspot.com/ more…

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