Analysis of Join the Ranks.
Sparsely the nuns rolled one another into the churchyard.
Eyes earnest, they knew the saints enough
not to be moved to tears however by the homily.
Until one fateful day when they were too
old to even walk down the aisle for the eaucarist.
A small child said his first prayer at the alter..." Dear God" he directed to the priest,
for he thought the priest was "this Jesus".
" Aaaaamen!" he cried.
Scheme | ABCDAEFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001110100101 110110101 1111111010100 0111011101 11101101101 01111111010111010101 111011110 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 420 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 331 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
About this poem
Nuns soldiering on, marching to church on time.
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Written on September 09, 2021
Submitted by heathert.34240 on September 09, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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