Analysis of Will You Take My Life?
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
As I move slowly through this world
I see lives are being saved
Where the Holy One is living
There’s another empty grave
You cannot kill the living
They just move from place to place
And even when their time has come
They still see Jesus’ face!
So, if you’re born again in Christ
Then what man shall you fear?
The people of this world are dead
They’re only living here
The Life that you have taken
Is the only One who’ll save you!
So, will you take My Life right now?
Or let this world enslave you?
Scheme | XXAX ABXB XXXX XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11110111 1111101 10101110 1010101 1101010 1111111 01011111 111101 11110101 111111 01011111 110101 0111110 10101111 11111111 1111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 511 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Written on July 20, 2009
Submitted by dawg4jesus on November 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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