Analysis of Limping



You come to me limping
Bur never no mind
You’ve come to know Jesus
In service so kind
You weep with folks hurting
Have been there in spades
But now you have comfort
To show what Christ made.
Quite humble, a listener
A shoulder to lean
While all around that One
Sees folks who are mean
Competing, condemning
What good can they do?
Success, in you missing?
Out the door…they’re through.
But limpers whose equity
Makes room for the lost
The infirm or slandered
Whatever the cost.
I’m thinking of Jacob
Night’s work made a Prince
The crisis of Purpose
Been kind ever since.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (24%)
Metre 111110 11011 111110 01011 111110 11101 111110 11111 1100100 01011 110111 11111 010010 11111 010110 10111 111100 11101 001110 1001 110110 11101 010110 11101 11111001010111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 649
Words 125
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 24, 1
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 251
Words per stanza (avg) 58
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Written on March 24, 2016

Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 24, 2023

Modified on March 24, 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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