Analysis of Cana



The woman told us to do it.
Pleasant obliging face
Enjoying the Feast.
Her Son over in the corner
By the indoor fig tree.
whatever He tells us to do.
However odd we must
Be about it.
Celebration Steward is
In a tizzy, for sure.
Wine is running out.
Everyone expects more.
It’s a Wedding.
Son now gesturing to us.
No one else supposed to notice.
“Fill those pots with
Water of washings.
Over there in the larger cisterns.
Take that water to Steward to sample.”
Oh brother, what will be accomplished?

Wine, yeah wine
Best wine of the Feast. Wow.
Who is that Son anyways?

(It is as if the departing music of the Lone Ranger can now be heard. And the hoofbeats of Silver, his trusty horse. I used to listen to those radio shows. Yeah, Radio.)


Scheme ABXXXXXAXXXXXCCXBXXX XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 01011111 100101 01001 01100010 10111 1011111 10111 1011 010101 001011 11101 10011 1010 1110011 11101110 1111 1011 101001010 1110110110 110111010 111 111011 111110 111100101010110111100111011011111011101110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 747
Words 160
Sentences 23
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 20, 3, 1
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 189
Words per stanza (avg) 46

About this poem

The first of the miracles of Jesus. John chapter 4.

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Written on March 03, 2023

Submitted by dougb.21370 on March 03, 2023

Modified by dougb.21370 on March 03, 2023

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Doug Blair

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