Analysis of It’s not about the body
It’s not about this body that’s subject to decay.
but it’s about the soul that will never fade away.
This body’s getting older and does not function well
and upon its limitations my mind began to dwell.
Then to me, “Fear not,” I heard God’s Holy Spirit say,
“Though your body shall die your soul will soar away
and will rise victorious above this earthly plain
ascending into heaven where there shall be no more pain.”
Scheme | AABB AACC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101110101101 1101011110101 111010011101 0011010110111 1111111110101 111011111101 0110100011101 01001101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 435 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
About this poem
Written after visiting my sister and hearing her say “If I was given the choice of denying Jesus and being well again, I would still choose Jesus and remain as I am.” This enabled my wife to win the victory over some negative feelings she had been having over the last 3-4 days about the limitations of declining health.
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