Analysis of To The Christians
Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1862 – 1893
TAKE, then, your paltry Christ,
Your gentleman God.
We want the carpenter's son,
With his saw and hod.
We want the man who loved
The poor and the oppressed,
Who hated the Rich man and King
And the Scribe and the Priest.
We want the Galilean
Who knew cross and rod.
It's your 'good taste' that prefers
A bastard 'God!'
| Scheme | ABCADEFGCBHB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 11001 1101001 11101 110111 010001 11001101 001001 110010 11101 1111101 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 314 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 242 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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