Analysis of Blood, Sweat and Tears
I watched through the window into yesterday
Abused like a virgin in a lare of sadists.
Fragile, sacred you,
Broken, shattered, grounded
I'm a repeated smash of rage
Butchered, like a dear
Caught in a trap of fangs,
Moaning, writhing, groaning
In blood, sweat and tears
Muttering for strength to keep on.
Lord of creation,
I watched you stagger on to greatness
Falling, crawling then rising
To stagger and fall again and again
With a will like something that holds all things together
But as an Offering could not sustain it's alter on the way to sacrifice.
King of glory,
I saw them mess you up; naked
Deformed, ridiculed and dirty,
You stank like a corpse,
Whip, dust and curses gracing
Your triumphant entry into Golgotha.
I saw you skewered and roasted
Then served to mother Earth,
But in her bowel never digested
So she purged you out the third day
Tell me you did it for the name
Tell me you enjoyed it but in disguise.
Tell me this picture has more impasto
Or else tell me it was but a journey of Love.
Scheme | A B X C X X B D B X X B D X X B E F E B D G F G C A X B A X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 1110100110 01101000111 10101 101010 10010111 10101 100111 101010 01101 10011111 11010 111101110 1010110 1100101001 1011101111010 1111001101110101110 1110 11111110 0110010 11101 1101010 101010011 11110010 111101 100101010 11111011 11111101 1110111001 11110111 111111101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,063 |
Words | 239 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 30 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
About this poem
The poet reflects on the suffering of his Saviour after watching a movie
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Written on July 23, 2022
Submitted by MasterPoet on July 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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