Analysis of ONLY AS THE SEA
Barry Green Jr 1973 (Florida)
ONLY AS THE SEA
Pain, it's proof of life
Poor proof you ask me
As though the fact of strife
Is all that there is to be
But pain exists, as does joy
Some will say it mocks
That hope is pains you
A trap of stormy rocks
Pain, can roll over you like a wave
Racing in from across the sea
Tumbling me, can nothing save
This pain surrounding me?
Yet even tumbling in this wave of pain
I feel the ground below, hitting my back
If You give me strength, my legs can gain
Purchase for my feet, dug in, stand the attack
Lord, my pain washes over me.
You see and love even as my world falls
But my pain is only as the sea
While Your Love is over, and in us all
So as the waves of pain roll in
Lift me above on eagles wing
As you washed away my sin
So also take my pain my King
AMEN
Scheme | A BABA XCXC DADA EFEF AXAX GHGHX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 11111 11111 110111 1111111 1101111 11111 11111 011101 111101101 10010101 10011101 110101 11010001111 1101011011 111111111 10111101001 11110101 1101101111 111110101 1111100011 11011110 11011101 1110111 11011111 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 776 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me. I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God. Psalm 69:1-3
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