Analysis of My Lord and my God
I was not there when they first saw the Lord,
and did not believe the disciple’s word.
“We have seen the Lord, ” they all said to me,
but it seemed too impossible to be.
He can’t be alive because He’d just died.
I’d need to thrust my hands into His side
and put my fingers where the nails had been,
before I believed what they said they’d seen.
But the next time Jesus came I was there,
and I saw His wounds and became aware,
of Who He really was and why He died.
“My Lord and my God,” I fell down and cried.
Scheme | XXAA BBXX CCBB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 1111111101 0110100101 1110111111 1111010011 1110101111 1111110111 0111010111 0110111111 1011101111 0111100101 1111010111 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 526 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
About this poem
Written after reading John 20:25-28
Font size:
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"My Lord and my God" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 27 May 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/108496/my-lord-and-my-god>.
Discuss this Royston poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In