Analysis of Just One Man
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Lord, you’re everything we need and nothing impure.
It’s your grace that we need so we can be sure.
It’s your grace we need Lord so we can stand,
In this coming age as just one man.
How great is your mercy that I might see?
The gifts that you have lavished on me.
A gift of kindness and a gift of peace,
With a gift of love that will not cease.
| Scheme | AAXX BBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11101101001 11111111111 1111111111 011011111 1111101111 011111011 0111000111 101111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 351 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Written on October 10, 2005
Submitted by dawg4jesus on February 16, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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