Analysis of Fear has been Defeated!
Benson Chukwueke 1971 (Owerri)
He gazed upon the skies
A view of a wandering eyes
Hallow eyes, filled with emptiness
Hopelessness and sadness
He was afraid of his own shadow
Cos his mind has become so shallow
He was afraid of tomorrow
He was afraid to live another day in sorrow
He said, what tomorrow will bring
will be nothing more than more pain
sickness, distress and loneliness in the rain
But I grabbed his fear firmly by the hand
let's take a leap from the phobic heights and land
I urged him, let us go
Don't observe the wind blow
let us move forward
But he retreated backward
He exclaimed, in this time and age
when the stormy weather rage
the hurricane, the tornado and the earthquake
My heart still quake
The darkest of the night
I cannot see the end of the tunnel's light
The darkness so thick in nature
I cannot see the future
To see is to believe, my friend
To believe is to see the end
Right then, I understood his perversity
why he faint in the time of adversity
Cos' his faith is small
His faith is so weak and stall
But he must learn how to walk on water
How to make his faith work in order
This is the mind set I must topple
I must preach to him the Gospel
to beat-down all his stronghold and phantoms
For the gospel is the solution to all human problems
The only power of God unto salvation
for all mankind elevation
I preach to him the gospel of faith
Cos' I knew by hearing comes faith
Hearing the word of God in good-faith
You understand this spiritual truth
That will make your life run so smooth
With the word of God in your mouth
You can chart the course of your life
You can prevent it from running rife
You can be the best you want to be
You can be so rich and healthy
As I speak to him words of faith
he looked up, eyes brightened
His gait rose up and heightened
He was ready to move forward
He was ready to jump upon the word
And take the world by storm
As I yet speak faith
Fear struggled away from my grasp
Then scamper and zap
Hurray, fear has been defeated!
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Metre | 110101 01101001 10111100 100010 11011111 111101110 1101101 1101110101010 1110111 11101111 10010100001 1111110101 11011010101 111111 101011 11110 1101010 10101101 1010101 010001001 1111 010101 11010110101 01011010 1101010 11110111 10111101 1110110100 11100110100 11111 1111101 1111111110 111111010 110111110 11111010 111111010 101010010111010 010101110010 1111010 111101011 11111011 100111011 101110001 11111111 10111011 11101111 110111101 111011111 11111010 11111111 111110 1111010 11101110 1110110101 010111 11111 11001111 11001 01111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,986 |
Words | 400 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 7, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 4, 5, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 59 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
About this poem
The Gospel of Faith, poetry written for my son David, for his spoken word performance in church.
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