Analysis of The Pleasure of God
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
Hear, O people, and God will speak,
He will testify against you;
The burnt offerings are weak,
The sacrifices are not true.
The Lord will be rebuking you,
He is not accepting a bull;
Or the goats that have no value,
Because each of you is a fool.
For every beast of the forest,
The cattle on the thousand hills;
Are not considered the choicest,
Since they are having many ills.
God knows all the birds in the air,
All creatures that move through the field;
You need to be very aware,
Sacrifice for scars has not healed.
If God hungered, He won’t tell you,
For the world and fullness in sense;
Hunger and thirst He does pursue,
Could be considered a pretense.
Does God eat the flesh of a bull?
Or does He drink the blood of goats;
Does He sheer sheep to wear the wool,
To make it into overcoats.
Offer to the Lord thanksgiving,
Pay your vows unto Him in prayer;
Sacrificial time in living,
With the Lord all the time you share.
Call on God in times of trouble,
He will rescue and glorify;
Pulling you out from the rubble,
Confession He will purify.
Copyright © 2024 Richard Newton Sherrer
Scheme | ABAB BCBX DEDE FGFG BHBH CICI JFJF KLKL X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100111 1110011 0110011 0100111 01110101 11101001 10111110 01111101 110011010 01010101 11010010 11110101 11101001 11011101 11111001 1011111 1111111 10101001 10011101 11010001 11101101 11110111 11111101 1110110 1010110 11110101 0101010 10110111 11101110 1110010 10111010 0101110 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,098 |
Words | 244 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Owner or Steward? Psalm 50:7–15
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