Analysis of Of Brimstone and Fire
Fear Him who holds the two-edged sword!
Even Him, whom you doth willfully ignore!
A day will come, every mouth will call him Lord!
Rath will pour onto mankind, such as never seen before!
Of brimstone, fire it will rain,
For earth refused to cleanse her sinful ways!
God will not be mocked!
Of what you sow today in sin,
Day will come to pass, the same you'll also glean!
Is it blindness that hath closed your way to Him?
Surely, you still have an ear to hear?
The end is nigh my fellow man!
Human, mortal, let Him wipe your sin away,
Even now, ask while you still can!
Beginning, end, and time between,
Every day that passes now,
Grows the rath-filled vial: human sin!
If only you could understand today;
Nothing of this earth can block His way,
Nothing will escape that fearsome day!
Indeed, awake, run and make amend,
Needest him whose blood was shed,
Go, before the trumpet signals this life's end!
Of water and of Spirit must be born again,
Forever, only then, with Him in heaven you can reign.
Wisdom speak these words of mine,
In fear of God they venture forth,
So heed this exhortation friend!
Dire is your journey without God,
Obey the law, His living word!
Merciful is He, to pay the price which you cannot afford..
Scheme | ABAB CX XDE XX FGF EXDGGGHXH XC XXHXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 10111110001 011110011111 11110111110101 11010111 1101110101 11111 11110101 11111011101 11101111111 101111111 01111101 10101111101 10111111 01010101 10011101 101110101 110110101 101111111 101011101 010110101 111111 10101010111 110011011101 01010111010111 1011111 01111101 111101 11110011 01011101 100111101111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,217 |
Words | 236 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 3, 2, 3, 9, 2, 6 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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