Analysis of Possessing Everything
Acrostic # 5
H ow can you live with yourself anymore?
A drift in your wealth and ignoring the poor,
V erifying you haven’t been born of the Spirit,
I gnoring your conscience, you don’t want to hear it,
N othing you acquire in this world really matters,
G reed rules your life and you keep getting fatter!
N ot believing the Lord is destroying your pearls,
O n your forehead and hand is the mark of the world,
T he grace that was offered to all, you refused,
H is love and His mercy is what you abused,
I n the day of His favor you were offered forgiveness,
N ow on the last day you just missed your deliverance,
G o out from His kingdom into darkness again!
Y ou most prideful of women and cowardly men,
E nabled by the world you’ve become ineffective,
T he future is certain and your judgment reflective!
P ossessing the things that He loves and commands,
O n the cross grace was offered, open arms, outstretched hands,
S tripped, beaten and spit on, insulted as He died,
S atan thought he had killed Him till God gave His reply,
E verything in the world had been stacked up against Him,
S o He gave up His body and did not resist them,
S alvation comes only through the grace of our King,
I t’s by the blood of Jesus and that’s why we sing,
N othing in this world could compare to His riches,
G iving them to us is one of God’s fondest wishes!
E very life on this earth is surely worth protecting,
V igilance is the key we will not be rejecting,
E ven when the sun has set and the moon is now reflecting,
R emembering His holy words, not one of them rejecting,
Y ou died for us and gave us life and it’s had its affecting,
T oday is the day of writing them and evermore reflecting,
H is love in this way, we know, we surely weren’t expecting,
I n everything we seek to have His love from us projecting,
N ow we go out into the world, this dark and gloomy place,
G iving the people of this world a taste of Your wonderful grace!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 1111110101 01011001001 1111111010 11110111111 1110100111010 111110111010 1101001101011 1111001101101 111111011101 111011011101 110111101010010 11101111110100 1111110011001 111111001001 111011010010 11101100110010 1101111001 11011110101011 1110011010111 1111111111101 110011111011 11111110011011 111101011101 11110111001111 110111011110 1111111111010 11011111101010 111011111010 111011100111010 1111011111010 1111101110111010 1011011101010010 111011111101010 111011111111010 111110101110101 1101011101111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,950 |
Words | 422 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 7, 3, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 249 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Written on August 14, 2007
Submitted by dawg4jesus on March 02, 2023
Modified on May 02, 2023
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