Analysis of DESPERATE WORLD
Barry Green Jr 1973 (Florida)
See the world in desperation
Crying out in lost seperation
See the dying world fall down
Christian can you turn around?
See the smoke of another war
So many it's just one more
As the mislles fill the skies
Christians don't shut your eyes
And the cries are raising ever higher
The lost are trapped by their desire
Reach out your hand to heal the land
Christian rise, oh church will ya stand?
Look at the walls pride destroyed
See the armies the world deployed
Oh Lord give me the words to say
Christian will you stand and pray?
Another nation falls on the news
Day by day people darkness choose
But I shout there's another choice
Oh Christian will you lift your voice?
And the cries are raising ever higher
The lost are trapped by their desire
Reach out your hand to heal the land
Christian rise, oh church will ya stand?
The world we see it's dying before
Desperate they cry, can't any take more
Darkness is falling across the lands
Christian, Christian will you lift your hands?
And the fires grow, the fires bloom
Hearts are bitter, and hatreds consume
Seeking a hope on deaf ears it falls
Christian, will you ever leave your walls?
And the cries are raising ever higher
The lost are trapped by their desire
Reach out your hand to heal the land
Christian rise, oh church will ya stand?
There's a desperate world we see
Desperate to live, and be free.
Lord Help me to point to You
Christian, will you be pointing too?
Amen
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010010 101011 1010111 1011101 10110101 1101111 101101 101111 0011101010 011111010 11111101 10111111 1101101 10100101 11110111 1011101 010101101 11110101 11110101 11011111 0011101010 011111010 11111101 10111111 011111001 101111011 101100101 101011111 001010101 111001001 100111111 101110111 0011101010 011111010 11111101 10111111 1010111 1011011 1111111 10111101 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,454 |
Words | 288 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) Ephesians 5:8-9
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