Analysis of 1st Commandment Blues
Can God pass judgment
against himself
Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed
their essence the same
Faith in the vision, truth at the core
a Trinity expanded
Tomato, tomatto, all roads lead to Rome
—His joy forever proclaimed
(Dreamsleep: October, 2022)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 0101 1010010 11001 100101101 0100010 01111111 1101001 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 244 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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