Analysis of Credentials
Valiantstar 1961 (Sydney)
Credentials don't count for much.
By their fruits you
Shall know them.
You can
Trust.
Look who their friends are, what traps they have set.
Lording over others, caught in their net.
They spread the net wide
Ambassadors
All places
The
Most
Cunning
Of all have
Pleasant faces.
Preaching righteousness, it does seem absurd,
Look at the outcome? Don't believe a word.
Here! That inclusion-
They offer peace.
Can't you see?
Given
Grief.
Offered a world of harmony, beyond!
But deliver misery. "Sing along!"
Now if the world is enmity with God,
The talking heads are
Just out to steal
And to rob.
Searching
Truth
Can
Be found
There on pages
Just hanging around.
Scheme | X XXAX B B XXCXXDXC E E FXXFX X X X XXXDXAGCG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111 1111 111 11 1 1111111111 110101011 11011 0100 110 0 1 10 111 1010 1010011101 110110101 11010 1101 111 10 1 1001110001 1010100101 1101110011 01011 1111 011 10 1 1 11 1110 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 676 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 1, 1, 8, 1, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 9 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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