Analysis of For Church Sake
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
The Lord says to His anointed,
Who is the right hand He has grasped;
Subdue the nations He appointed,
Unlock any doors that are clasped.
Open the doors and the closed gates,
So that the Lord will have access;
Unlock them because He awaits,
For wanting to hear you profess.
He will be going before you,
To level the exalted place;
Breaking the bronze doors to pursue,
Cut bars of iron that embrace.
He will give darkness of treasures,
And the hoards in secret places;
To know the Lord what He pleasures,
Calling what the chosen faces.
Although you have not known the Lord,
He is God, there is no other;
Who needs to be loved and adored,
Never to worship another.
You may know from the rising sun,
Not from the west but from the east;
Any other worshipping none,
As the Lord will prepare a feast.
He formed light and created dark,
He created peace and evil;
Follow the Lord where you embark,
So you can avoid the devil.
Copyright ©2023 Richard Newton Sherrer
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN J |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111010 11011111 010101010 01101111 10010011 1101111 01101101 11011101 11110011 11000101 10011101 11110101 11110110 00101010 11011110 10101010 1111101 11111110 11111001 10110010 11110101 11011101 10101001 10110101 11100101 10101010 10011101 11101010 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 964 |
Words | 211 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
God's Instrument Isaiah 45:1-7
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