Analysis of Wheel In The Sky
Wheel In The Sky
Author: Mark V. Markov
Autumn,winter,spring,summer
Time is here again oh Lord
Happening so fast
How many years and months
I long, I hope
As I hold on a little longer
Said a prayer
Sent a spiritual letter
On a long wondrous day
Even though sometimes it feels
Like I'm just made of clay,
Oh, I have been walking down
This narrow road
Oh wheel in the sky
The heavenly wheel keeps on turning
I do know where I will be tomorrow,
Oh wheel in the sky
The heavenly wheel in the sky
Keeps on turning
I've been trying to make it home
To the heavens home
Not to make it before too long
Sometimes I can't take this
I can't take it very much longer
At times I'm standing in life's struggles
Sometimes I'm standing in the rain
I do know forever someday
By Your mercy and grace
I'll make it to the heavens home
When the morning sun is rising
So far, I'm still on earth
Seeing the coming of the day
Wheel in the sky
The heavenly wheel keeps on turning
I do know where I will be tomorrow
Wheel in the sky
The heavenly wheel in the sky
Keeps on turning
Wheel in the sky
The heavenly wheel keeps on turning
I do know where I will be tomorrow
Wheel in the sky
The heavenly wheel in the sky
Keeps me yearning
Oh Lord someday
To forever see Your wondrous glory
I do know, I do know
Wheel in the sky
The heavenly wheel keeps on turning
I do know where I will be tomorrow
Wheel in the sky
The heavenly wheel in the sky
Keeps me yearning.
Oh Lord someday
To forever see Your wondrous glory
Wheel in the sky
The heavenly wheel in the sky
Keeps on turning
I do know where I will be tomorrow
Wheel in the sky
The heavenly wheel in the sky
Keeps on turning
Wheel in the sky
Keeps on turning
Wheel in the sky
Keeps on turning...
Ezekiel 1:15-28 (ESV)
15 Now as I looked at the living creatures,
I saw a wheel on the earth beside the living creatures,
one for each of the four of them.
16 As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction:
their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl
And the four had the same likeness,
their appearance and construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel.
17 When they went,
they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went.
18 And their rims were tall and awesome,
and the rims of all four were full of eyes all around.
19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them;
and when the living creatures rose from the earth,
the wheels rose.
20 Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went,
and the wheels rose along with them,
for the spirit of the living creatures
was in the wheels.
21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood;
and when those rose from the earth
the wheels rose along with them,
for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
22 Over the heads of the living creatures
there was the likeness of an expanse,
shining like awe-inspiring crystal,
spread out above their heads.
23 And under the expanse their
wings were stretched out straight, one toward another.
And each creature had two wings
covering its body.
24 And when they went,
I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters,
like the sound of the Almighty,
a sound of tumult like the sound of an army.
When they stood still, they let down their wings.
25 And there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads.
When they stood still, they let down their wings.
26 And above the expanse over their heads there was the likeness of a throne,
in appearance like sapphire;
and seated above the likeness of a throne
was a likeness with a human appearance
27 And upward from what had the appearance of his waist
I saw as it were gleaming metal,
like the appearance of fire
enclosed all around
And downward from what had the appearance of his waist
I saw as it were the appearance of fire,
and there was brightness around him.
28 Like the appearance of the bow
that is in the cloud on the day of rain,
so was the appearance of the brightness all around.
Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.
And when I saw it, I fell on my face,
and I heard the voice of one speaking
Description of Cherubim in Heaven
Ezekiel 10:14 (ESV)
14 And every one had four faces:
the first face was the face of the cherub,
and the second face was a human face,
and the third the face of a lion
and the fourth the face of an eagle.
Description of Seraphim in Heaven
Isaiah 6:1-3 (ESV)
[ Isaiah's Vision of the Lord ]
In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne,
high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings:
with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet,
and with two he flew. And one called to another and said:
Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!
Revelation 4:6-8 (ESV)
6 and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal.
And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures,
full of eyes in front and behind:
7 the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox,
the third living creature with the face of a man,
and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight.
8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings,
are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,
"Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,
who was and is and is to come!"
Ezekiel 10 (ESV)
1 Then I looked, and behold,
on the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim
there appeared above them
something like a sapphire, in appearance like a throne.
2 And he said to the man clothed in linen,
"Go in among the whirling wheels underneath the cherubim.
Fill your hands with burning coals from between the cherubim,
and scatter them over the city."
And he went in before my eyes.
3 Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house,
when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.
4 And the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub to the threshold of the house,
and the house was filled with the cloud,
and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.
5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim
was heard as far as the outer court,
like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
6 And when he commanded the man clothed in linen,
Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,"
he went in and stood beside a wheel.
7 And a cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire
that was between the cherubim,
and took some of it and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen,
who took it and went out.
8 The cherubim appeared to have the form of a human hand under their wings.
9 And I looked, and behold,
there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each cherub,
and the appearance of the wheels was like sparkling beryl.
10 And as for their appearance,
the four had the same likeness, as if a wheel were within a wheel.
11 When they went, they went in any of their four directions
without turning as they went,
but in whatever direction the front wheel faced,
the others followed without turning as they went.
12 And their whole body, their rims, and their spokes, their wings,
and the wheels were full of eyes all around-the wheels
that the four of them had.
13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing "the whirling wheels."
14 And every one had four faces:
the first face was the face of the cherub,
and the second face was a human face,
and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
15 And the cherubim mounted up.
These were the living creatures that I saw by the Chebar canal.
16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them.
And when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth,
the wheels did not turn from beside them.
17 When they stood still, these stood still,
and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them,
for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.
18 Then the glory of the LORD went out from the threshold of the house,
and stood over the cherubim.
19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings
and mounted up from the earth before my eyes as they went out,
with the wheels beside them.
And they stood at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD,
and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.
20 These were the living creatures
that I saw underneath the God of Israel by the Chebar canal;
and I knew that they were cherubim.
21 Each had four faces, and each four wings,
and underneath their wings the likeness of human hands.
22 And as for the likeness of their faces,
they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the Chebar canal.
Each one of them went straight forward.
2 Kings 19:15 (ESV)
And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said:
"O LORD, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim,
you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth;
you have made heaven and earth.
Psalm 99:1 (ESV)
[ The LORD Our God Is Holy ] The LORD reigns; let the peoples tremble!
He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!
Ezekiel 10:1 (ESV)
[ The Glory of the LORD Leaves the Temple ] Then I looked, and behold,
on the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim
there appeared above them something like a sapphire,
in appearance like a throne.
Ezekiel 10:7-9 (ESV)
7 And a cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim
to the fire that was between the cherubim,
and took some of it and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
8 The cherubim appeared to have the form of a human hand under their wings.
9 And I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each cherub,
and the appearance of the wheels was like sparkling beryl.
Ezekiel 10:17-19 (ESV)
17 When they stood still, these stood still, and when they mounted up,
these mounted up with them,
for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.
18 Then the glory of the LORD went out from the threshold of the house,
and stood over the cherubim.
19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings
and mounted up from the earth before my eyes as they went out,
with the wheels beside them.
And they stood at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD,
and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.
Ezekiel 10:19-21 ESV)
19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings
and mounted up from the earth before my eyes as they went out,
with the wheels beside them.
And they stood at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD,
and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.
20 These were the living creatures that
I saw underneath the God of Israel by the Chebar canal;
and I knew that they were cherubim.
21 Each had four faces, and each four wings,
and underneath their wings the likeness of human hands.
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| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 13,284 |
| Words | 2,375 |
| Sentences | 71 |
| Stanzas | 81 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 6, 7, 6, 5, 5, 3, 6, 8, 9, 7, 4, 1, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 2, 4, 7, 6, 1, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 2, 5, 1, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 4, 5, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 1, 4, 2, 3, 3, 2, 5, 3, 2, 3, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 5, 1, 5, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 259 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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