Analysis of Grateful Hearts

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



O God, our God, we sing to you.
We raise a shout of joy!
We want your face to shine on us;
To save our little boy.
He has been sick for so long now,
And often close to death.
I ran to get his medicine,
But he had feared I left.

I never will forsake you son,
Your side we’ll never leave.
Your Father and I love your soul,
If you left we’d be grieved!
So now forever stay with us
And we’ll have lots of fun.
O God, our God, we sing to you,
Because you are the One.

Our one and only Sovereign Lord, Jesus Christ!
All power and glory belong to him! Amen.


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Poetic Form
Metre 111011111 110111 11111111 1110101 11111111 010111 11111100 111111 11010111 111101 11001111 111111 11010111 011111 111011111 011101 101010101101 110010011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 559
Words 135
Sentences 13
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 2
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 136
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Written on June 19, 2023

Submitted by dawg4jesus on June 22, 2023

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