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Insurance Can’t Protect You

Richard Groff

Although I do the best I can
I just can’t seem to get ahead

It’s one step forward two steps back
It’s perseverance that I lack

Though I don’t want to suffer more
Great trials will find me this I’m sure

They’ll follow me across the earth
Until I’ve finished giving birth

To hope and love with great endurance
Of this I now have God’s assurance
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Written on July 26, 2012

Submitted by dawg4jesus on June 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX AA XX BB CC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 362
Words 70
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
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