Analysis of Spiritual Sellers



Hiding to dry out their dirty laundry.
In cellars where they dwell.
Ceating to tell long hypocritical tales.
Known too well.
By the ones who choose,
To refuse to believe.
People like this,
Have lived to deceive.

Although they may be out of sight.
Practice and rehearse they do,
Lies told to tell until made true.
With a convincing enough to know,
Where to go and who to pick...
The spreading of their nonsense.
Blended with a mix of a faking of faith.
And just the right touch of pretentious B.S.
Known will be forgiven,
In the House of God.
Since to them it is believed,
God forgives...
Liars, sinners and deceivers.
Doing what they do intentionally.
Regardless if done,
To rehearse and practice first in a church!

'How blasphemous.
How irreverent.
And...
Despicably disrespectful.'

'Exactly.
That's what I thought.
But,
I was made aware what demons do...
When I saw a minister re-enact,
What the devil does.
Then to say,
We all sin and he still does too.
To demand we all bow our heads in prayer!'

'Then...
Open one of his eyes,
To see whose heads were bowed.'

'How blasphemous.
How irreverent.
And despicably deceiving.'

'The both of you!'


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Poetic Form
Metre 1011111010 010111 111101001 111 10111 101101 1011 11101 1111111 1000111 11110111 100100111 1110111 0101110 10101101011 0101110101 111010 00111 1111101 101 101001 1011101000 01011 1010101001 1100 10100 0 1010 010 1111 1 111011101 1110100101 10101 111 11101111 10111110101 1 101111 111101 1100 10100 01010 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,173
Words 259
Sentences 37
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 8, 16, 4, 9, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 44
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 125
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Written on August 07, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on August 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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