Analysis of Jesus Paid It All
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
When you live by the sword;
Then you die by the same.
When you don’t heed the word;
Then there’s no one to blame.
If you can’t find the answer
In the letter I wrote;
Check your mail every day
And I’ll drop you a note.
You know that my love
Is the door you must enter.
If you knock I’ll come in
And I’ll give you a center!
You know that I love you
And I always will;
Though your debt was enormous,
I still paid your bill!
Scheme | XAXA BCXC XBXB XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111101 111101 111101 111111 1111010 001011 1111001 011101 11111 1011110 111110 0111010 111111 0111 1111010 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 435 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Written on March 18, 2008
Submitted by dawg4jesus on February 14, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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