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
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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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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