Analysis of The touch of Your hand

Royston 1946 (Reading)



I was fascinated by your hands yesterday,
touching all those you met on your way.
Holding the hand of a child so tenderly.
Working hard to care for friends and family.

Those hands were the hands of the Lord.
They spoke more powerfully than any word,
and I saw sweet works of Jesus taking place
as you reached out to others with your embrace.

But then to my pleasure and my great joy
you reached out taking the hand of your boy.
Lifting my soul to such heavenly heights
and filling my heart with loving delights.

It was such a privilege to hold and be near
touching the hand of the one I love so dear.
I felt I was being held by the hand of the Lord
for such blessings can only come from God.

My dear — Grow old with me, my lovely wife.
We'll walk forward like this the rest of our life.
Hand in hand, step by step and day by day,
together with Jesus, let's walk His way.


Scheme AABB CXDD EEFF GGCX HHAA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (60%)
Metre 1110011110 101111111 10011011100 10111110100 11001101 1111001101 01111110101 11111101101 1111100111 1111001111 1011111001 0101111001 11101011011 10011011111 1111101101101 1110110111 1111111101 111011011101 1011110111 0101101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 870
Words 173
Sentences 12
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 135
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted by royston on September 29, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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