Analysis of Apostates
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
People rely upon a dream,
Defile flesh, snub authority;
Glorious blaspheme it may seem,
Speaking evil of dignity.
They will contend with the devil,
Disputing the body of Moses;
Judged blasphemous stir up evil,
Showing that they are malicious.
These people do not understand,
Unreasoning as a brute beast;
Corruption that seems to expand,
Farther from the west to the east.
Woe to them who walk in the way,
Abandon themselves for the gain;
The lost sheep that have gone astray,
That will perish to feel the pain.
These are hidden reefs of your love,
Are feasting with you without fear;
Waterless clouds and winds thereof,
Swept along by winds that appear.
Fruitless trees withered in the fall,
Twice dead and plucked up by their roots;
Lumberjacks were given a call,
To chop down a tree that pollutes.
The raging waves that roam the sea,
Casting up the foam of their shame;
Wandering stars as fancy-free,
As the moon shines bright to proclaim.
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Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL BMBM X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010101 1110100 1001111 10101100 11011010 010010110 11001110 10111010 1101101 0101011 01011101 10101101 11111001 01001101 01111101 11101101 11101111 11011011 11011 10111101 10110001 11011111 101001 11101101 01011101 10101111 10011101 10111101 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 990 |
Words | 204 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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