Analysis of Relief



I want to ride the breeze tonight
 and find a far off place
 where I can make the wrongs all right
 and clean my tear stained face;

To bandage up my bleeding heart
 and allow the wounds to heal;
 To fix a smile that can't depart
 nor let pain be revealed.

Somewhere I can eat the words
 I've spoken with regret,
 and put the painful things I've heard
 somewhere I can forget.

There is a place to do these things
 where I can find relief.
 I can to the altar bring
 the pain, the wrongs, the grief.

So, to my closet I must go
 to tell it to the Lord.
 One thing I have come to know
 these things I can't afford.

For Jesus paid for all these things
 I no longer need to bear.
 I can find relief again
 when I meet Him in prayer.


Scheme ABAB CXCX XDXD EFXF GHGH EIXI
Poetic Form Quatrain  (83%)
Metre 11110101 010111 11110111 011111 11011101 0010111 11011101 111101 111101 110101 01010111 11101 11011111 111101 1110101 010101 11110111 111101 1111111 111101 11011111 1110111 1110101 111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 708
Words 146
Sentences 8
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on July 20, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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