Analysis of God’s House
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
A house where all the lights are on
It has a blazing furnace
Though fiery coals can keep us warm
If we won’t watch they’ll burn us
We live here in the southern valley
In a desert town
And when we look upon the hills
There are angels all around
It’s winter in Jerusalem
The LORD stands in his temple
The body of Christ can be seen
The evidence is ample
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 01110111 1101010 110011111 1111111 111001010 00101 01110101 1110101 11000100 0110110 01011111 0100110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 359 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Written on March 19, 2016
Submitted by dawg4jesus on July 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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