Analysis of Idols
Valiantstar 1961 (Sydney)
"They worship the work of their hands."
"He saw it long ago."
A godless time when all humanity gets caught in an evil flow.
Blinded by illusion the riches never came.
Just a pox on both their houses with no one else to blame.
The day of the Lord will come and on that day we'll know...
When the lowly are exalted and the high ones take a blow.
Man's loftiness and haughtiness will be brought down.
And on that day exalted the King with many crowns.
| Scheme | XA A B B A A X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001111 111101 01011101001101101 101010010101 10111110111111 0110111011111 101010100011101 11011111 0111010011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 460 |
| Words | 102 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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