Analysis of Belly-Shaking Worship
No these are not mere words
We’re done with games
Done with prescribed religious talk
Our gut growls
With the unsated hunger of searching
We’ve searched your Book
We’ve searched on our knees
We’ve searched the experiences of friends
And your footprint shows
But not your face
Not your kindly embrace.
You inhabit the praises of your people
You’ve told us that
You inhabit abandon
And brokenness.
And expectation.
And now “by prayer and supplication
With thanksgiving”
We come, and we come together.
Show us Lord, the reluctance
The unforgiveness, the pretension
The testiness and impatience
Pull out all the stops.
Please.
The diaphragm quivers
The face is wet
The phrases come with melody
And we are released
Into You.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJJKLMAMMENOMOPGAQRST |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 0111 11010101 1011 10110110 1111 111101 1100100011 0111 1111 111001 10100101110 1111 1010010 01 0010 011101 110 11011010 1110010 010010 010010 11101 1 0101 0111 01011100 01101 011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 734 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 29 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 583 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
About this poem
Captivating moments of honest worship.
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Written on March 14, 2018
Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 15, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on March 15, 2023
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