Analysis of Restore Me O God
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
O God of Hosts restore me,
Let Your face shine to be saved;
Give me the insight to see.
Stop temptation that enslaved.
You brought vines out of the land,
Drove out nations to plant them;
The ground fertile was once sand,
No longer the land to condemn.
You prepared and cleared the ground,
As it filled taking deep root;
Producing crops to abound,
Yielding the delicious fruit.
The hills covered with its shade,
Mighty cedars with its branches;
The countryside was outlaid,
For cows and sheep with ranches.
It sent branches to the sea,
To the river of its shoots;
Declarations to decree,
That Your chosen firmly roots.
Why have You broken the wall,
Now migrants can pluck the fruit;
Open borders that did fall,
That the chosen does dispute.
Boar from the forest ravage,
Wild beasts that will consume;
As they will become savage.
Sends the chosen to their tomb.
Copyright © 2024 Richard Newton Sherrer
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF XGBG AHAH IFIF XJXJ X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011 1111111 110111 1010101 1111101 1110111 0110111 11001101 1010101 1111011 0101101 1000101 0110111 10101110 01011 1101110 1110101 1010111 010101 1110101 1111001 1101101 1010111 1010101 1101010 111101 1110110 1010111 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 907 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
Ripe for God’s Restoration Psalm 80:7–13
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