Analysis of People Would Say



people would say all kinds of mean things
because they had not real life much in their wings
they came up with all kinds of stuff they could fling
people all kinds of say, would mean things,
mean

but Jesus said take my yoke, it always was light
like a cloud drifting down it weighed hardly ban once
but forgive and forget it and i love you again
the Law of find-free, and lets become more like Me

or like you, but all cool, no projections on others
leading the Way, and discerning the best thing
to say to a brother -- to bless or reveal, to help false wings unpeel
or to slow down the ravels from travels that smother

the soul, newly birthed, it looked for the truth
but fell sadly in place, drifting down into duldrums
when they beheld our face, a mean, ugly space
that looked out and began to chase all the others

away, or at least make them feel bad, not like Christ
had -- forgiven and found, a most welcoming sound
now mostly gone from the room and replaced
with a dread of a next bad thing said -- to block out our light

given.  but the Just walk within -- also without,  or it sinks
into grout on the wall, just a stain where
nothing is plain, but much pain, but much pain
given and gotten, the whole becomes rotten

and stinks to high heavens!  and of things
ill- begotten.  the Way being free, we should never
start stoppin' the others from going and even
from passing us over on the way up to Heaven

where grasses all cool and winds blow with shine
the people speak everything with good intentions
sublime, they do not argue about spiritual platters
and everyone eats all the food they have gathered --

from a far off place found, when they learned to walk
with Christ-like spirit, and quieted heart --
they sunk in their heels and started to follow
and they have now arrived to the place of no sorrow


Scheme AABAX CXXX DBEF XAXD XXXC XXXG AFXG XXDX XXEX
Poetic Form
Metre 101111111 01111111011 11111111111 101111111 1 11011111111 101101111011 1010011011101 011110101111 1111111010110 10010010011 1110101110111111 111101110110 0110111101 111001101011 11110101101 111001111010 011111111111 101001011001 110110101 101101111111101 101011011001111 0111011011 1011111111 10010010110 011110011 1010011011110 11010110010 1101101011110 1101101111 01011011010 011111001100010 01011011110 10111111111 1111001001 11011010110 0111011011110
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,820
Words 355
Sentences 4
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 37
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 158
Words per stanza (avg) 39

About this poem

Psalm 131 ESV - I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul - A - Bible Gateway Psalm 131 English Standard Version I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul A Song of Ascents. Of David. 131 O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. 2 But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul - A - Bible Gateway https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20131-133&version=ESV

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Submitted by prayersfor on April 20, 2023

Modified by prayersfor on April 20, 2023

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