Analysis of Focus on Jesus



Focus on Jesus that's what I should have
done but, I was focusing on my job,
and things was getting very hard.
I couldn't sleep, I was up all night;
thinking about the mean people in my life

Wishing God would put them in their place,
but, he sat me down and gave me
a time out instead. Now I am sitting here wondering why
I didn't put God first in my life.

I was focusing on my woes and other
people pro's and wondering why
I wasn't the head, but the tale.

Then it game to me, one night when I was
sinking in a sea of a failure life, Peter
toke his eyes off the way to eternal
life and began to sink in the sea, but
then he call out to Jesus, God lifted him
up and God will do the same for you and me,
if we keep our focus on Him.

Forgive me God for not keeping my focus on
you and thank you for taking out of my life
the things that kelp my focus from the one
who can give me eternal life.


Scheme XXXXA XBCA DCX XDXXEBE XAXA
Poetic Form
Metre 1011011111 1111100111 01110101 110111111 10010110011 101111011 11111011 011011111011001 110111011 11100111010 10101001 11001101 1111111111 100011010110 1111011010 1001110011 11111101101 10111011101 111101011 011111101101 10111101111 0111110101 11110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 868
Words 190
Sentences 6
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 3, 7, 4
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 136
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on March 08, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Angela Lorine Smith

Born in Atlanta, Georgia to the parents of Leo and Paulette Sheats on February 9, 1965, the third child in a family of five. She started to write poetry at the age of 11. Angela love reading, writing and computers, from programming computers, troubleshooting them, writing blogs, website etc. She is a daughter, mother, wife and grandmother. more…

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