Analysis of Cosmetic faith



Please teach me - Oh my God, to desire what is good.
Furthermore, increase my love, my passion is for thee.
Faith or peace I have known, they’re nothing but vain things,
kept in fear that I might cease, but feign been felt by me.  


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 1111111010111 100111110111 111111110111 1011111111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 235
Words 48
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 44
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 174
Words per stanza (avg) 45
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Written on February 20, 2022

Submitted by Walt_End_Pund on March 02, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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