Analysis of Praise the Lord
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Sticks and stones along the road
Can sometimes make me falter
But wicked words from unclean lips
Won’t keep me from the alter
A background that is only black
Will make my light shine brighter
And in the deepest darkest night
My burden will be lighter
I love the way that Jesus works
In troubled circumstances
To shine a light that all can see
That there are second chances
He heals the sick, the lame, the blind
And drives out evil spirits
He opens the ears of the deaf
So even they can hear it
| Scheme | XAXA XAXA XBXB XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 1010101 1011110 11011011 1111010 0111101 1111110 00010101 1101110 11011101 010100 11011111 1111010 11010101 0111010 11001101 1101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 499 |
| Words | 98 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Written on June 26, 2012
Submitted by dawg4jesus on July 11, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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