Analysis of Help
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
How can I teach what I have not learned?
How can I speak what I haven’t discerned?
I don’t do what I want and what I don’t want, that I do.
Why do you put up with me? I’d just kill me if I were you.
How can you have such patience?
And mercy and kindness and grace?
I tell you the truth, if I was You, I’d remove me from my place.
But Your love does not give into fear or anger or disgrace.
You humbled yourself and put on flesh
And in punishment took my place.
So now I stand here speechless without any words to say.
Just waiting for the time you’ll come back and sweep me away.
Come quickly Lord Jesus! The Spirit and the bride say come.
Scheme | AABB XCCCXC DD X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111111 111111101 11111101111111 111111111111101 1111110 01001001 1110111111011111 111111011110101 110010111 00100111 11111100110111 11010111101101 11011001000111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Written on July 31, 2007
Submitted by dawg4jesus on February 25, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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