Analysis of Growing in Your Faith
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
Make a drive to be diligent.
Supplement your faith with virtue;
Virtue makes you intelligent,
Knowledge that helps to construe.
Knowledge will give you self-control,
And temperance for your patience;
A godliness abounds the soul,
Loving-kindness in your conscience.
These qualities that will increase,
Keeps you from being unfruitful;
So that your mind can be at peace,
Making your actions more graceful.
Knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ,
Will cleanse you of your former sin;
Not myopic to be enticed,
Which causes corruption within.
Be more diligent to confirm,
For qualities you can practice;
As a habit for the long term,
Which is building your confidence.
You will be richly provided,
Into His eternal Kingdom;
And you will become united,
Within His knowledge and wisdom.
Copyright © 2023 Richard Newton Sherrer
Scheme | ABAB CDCD ECEX FGFG HXHD IJIJ X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10111100 10011110 10110100 1011101 10111101 01001110 010101 10100110 11001101 111101 11111111 10110110 10101101 11111101 10101101 11001001 11100101 11001110 10101011 11101100 11110010 01101010 01101010 01110010 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 824 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Confirm Your Calling and Election 2 Peter 1:5-11
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