Analysis of As the psalmist would have it…Sing.



Come now, together,
Let’s sing for the joy of it.
Gather with brothers
And  sisters of grace.
Tell of the stories of
Jesus the marvelous
Captain of courage
Who  died in our place.
Whate’er the trouble
Preceding the glad refrain
Soon it will vanish
Like mists of the morn.
Saints with new vistas
Of God in the commonplace.
Shaking the tambourine,
Sounding the horn.


Scheme ABCDEFGDHIJKLDMK
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 1110111 10110 01011 110101 100100 10110 110101 1010 0100101 11110 11101 11110 110010 10001 1001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 369
Words 72
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 288
Words per stanza (avg) 66
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Written on March 05, 2011

Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 05, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wayne Blair

Born in London. Graduated law 1976 Practised eleven years, Married Hilary 1974 Two kids Lauren 1980 And Jordan 1987. Business failed 1987. Moved not knowing whither. Happy hills of Waterloo Region. Mennonite Country. Thirty four years in Industry. No complaints. Poet, photographer, nature hiker. Harmonica busker. http://puffnchord7.blogspot.com/ more…

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