Analysis of WHAT DID IT COST YOU?
Barry Green Jr 1973 (Florida)
WHAT DID IT COST YOU?
What did it cost you,
To leave Heaven far behind?
What did it cost you
To leave the Glory there to find?
What did it cost you
To give sight to the blind?
What did it cost you...
...oh my God....
What did it cost you?
What did it cost you
To leave the pearly sky?
What did it cost you
To save a wretch such as I?
What did it cost you
That you were born to die?
What did it cost you...
...oh my God...
What did it cost you?
I can never imagine
The choice you freely made
To pay our wage of sin
In Blood the price was paid
I can't imagine what it cost...
...oh my God...
What did it cost you?
What did it cost you
To take it all on your head?
What did it cost you
To fulfill the words you said?
What did it cost you
To raise us from the dead?
What did it cost you...
...oh my God...
What did it cost you?
What did it cost you
To become a Manger King?
What did it cost you
For the Angel host to sing?
What did it cost you
At the nail and hammer ring?
What did it cost you...
...oh my God...
What did it cost you
You crushed the serpent's head
In a brilliant master stroke
When you rose from the dead
Sin's power finally broke
I can't imagine what it cost...
...oh my God...
What did it cost you?
AMEN
| Scheme | A AbAbAbACA AdAdAdACA xexeFCA AgAgAgACA AhAhAhACA gigiFCAx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 11111 1110101 11111 11010111 11111 111101 11111 111 11111 11111 110101 11111 1101111 11111 110111 11111 111 11111 1110010 011101 1110111 010111 11010111 111 11111 11111 1111111 11111 1010111 11111 111101 11111 111 11111 11111 1010101 11111 1010111 11111 1010101 11111 111 11111 110101 0010101 111101 1101001 11010111 111 11111 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 1,244 |
| Words | 296 |
| Sentences | 37 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 9, 9, 7, 9, 9, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 52 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
About this poem
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5 8
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