Analysis of When the world says
when the world says…
when the world says I am worthless,
You say I am worth it.
when the world says I am broken,
Your love makes me whole again.
When the world calls me weird
You call me Yours.
when the world says the sea is too deep,
You hold the waters back for me.
when the world says the flames will consume me
You are in the fire by my side.
when the world has me held captive in my sin,
Your cross says I am no longer a slave to sin.
when the world says,
Jesus says I have overcome the world!
| Scheme | A xx xx xx xb bx cc Ax |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1011 10111110 111111 10111110 1111101 101111 1111 101101111 11010111 1011011011 110010111 10111110011 111111100111 1011 101111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 508 |
| Words | 123 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
About this poem
this poem is about what the world says about us vs. what our Creator and Savior Jesus Christ says about us it goes off of a verse in Hebrews 12:23 which declares that Christ's blood speaks a better word over us than that which the world speaks.
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