Analysis of Children of the Promise

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



Children of the promise rarely live an easy life.
Instead its marked by suffering and has its fill of strife.
One day is very pleasant as your promise fills the room.
But other days are awful and they’re only filled with gloom.
The light breaks through the darkness; and the darkness is destroyed!
But in this life, there’s trouble that a man cannot avoid.
I hear the birdies singing in a grove of barren trees.
The sound of all their voices is just so hard to believe.
The sing although they have no food; their little bellies empty.
We sing because we trust in God! Let not this world temp me.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1010101011101 01111100011111 11110101110101 11011100110111 01110100010101 10111101011001 11010100011101 01111101111101 01111111101010 11011101111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 599
Words 120
Sentences 11
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 47
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 469
Words per stanza (avg) 111
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Written on March 23, 2024

Submitted by dawg4jesus on March 23, 2024

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