Analysis of Those Pentecostals
They are outside Town
With their strange noisy Church
And the tongues might
Be heard from the street.
It’s all signs and wonders
Just like Swaggart and friends
Must admit his piano was sweet.
We have our doubts
Here First Baptist, our bunch.
The Word rules it all
And the power gifts, utterance are DONE.
But their joy, eager showing up
Gets one to think.
How might things be if
Religion were fun.
Those folks search their Testaments
Back it all up.
Their sermons are not
All goose bumps.
And Jesus had said
In Spirit and in Truth.
A day comes when the saint
Bows AND JUMPS. (Read John chapter four with the Woman at the well.)
Scheme | X X X A X X A X X X B C X X B X C X X X X X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 111101 0011 11101 111010 111001 101101011 11101 1110101 01111 0010110011 11110101 1111 11111 01001 1111100 1111 11011 111 01011 010001 011101 101111011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 660 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 23 |
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 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 21 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Written on April 11, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on April 11, 2023
Modified on April 14, 2023
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