Analysis of But I will remember. (psalm 77)
Wayne Blair 1951 (London)
My sore ran in the night
Sleep denied
Wept and cried.
Why Lord
This abandonment and shame?
I have not denied your Name.
And villains mock
They taunt my faith in You
And now my life pursue.
Do you not arise
For sake of the meek?
Tempered in Godly fear
Is rescue near?
But I will remember
Years at your right hand.
Rescues oh so grand.
And what you did
For Moses and Aaron
Through threatening water
Past Pharaoh’s slaughter.
And revenge.
Now there comes new momentum.
Daniel in that den of lions.
Spunky David boy taking down
The blaspheming Giant.
Elisha’s servant seeing
Numberless Chariots of Fire.
My own grandmother
Surviving throat cancer
By decades, and embracing
My own Daughter.
In the Rest Home.
All marvellous.
And so I remember…
Yes, Chariots of Fire
Scheme | XAAXBBXCC DXEE FGGXXFFX XXXXHFFFHFXDF F |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (34%) |
Metre | 111001 101 101 11 1010001 1110111 0101 111101 011101 11101 11101 100101 1101 111010 11111 1111 0111 110010 110010 11010 001 1111010 10011110 10101101 0110 11010 1100110 1110 010110 1010010 1110 0011 11 011010 1100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 803 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 4, 8, 13, 1 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Written on April 27, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on April 27, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on April 28, 2023
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