Analysis of Revival Tent
The music began complete with fiddles, banjo, drums, accordian and trombone. The old favourites brought a comfort and an encouragement. "Got Any Rivers? You think are uncrossable. Got any Mountains? You can't tunnel through. God specializes in things thought impossible. He'll do for you what none other can do."
And then the message from Brother Fuller. Parts of it remain still now, clear in the memory, filled with promise, and filled with the thrill of our young friends stepping forward in response to the call of Jesus:
"Enough, friends, to be in His family;
To relish in the engagement of real, caring prayer;
To know that His Testament bequeathes us
Life, unburdened conscience and new spiritual power.
To sense foretastes of Heaven.
Enough, to see His artistry at break of day;
To hear His serenade in the turtledove;
His optimism in a youngster's laugh.
To thrill at His power in the thunderbolt,
In the stinging wind over dry fields,
In the deluge that fills the watercourses
In mere minutes.
Enough, to hear his words of rebuke
To the Enemy, the Slanderer,
And his underlings who whisper, threaten or foreclose;
To understand His assurance that no man, no devil
Shall take a child out of His hand.
This is our Father,
As represented by our Elder Brother.
This is salvation, and
This is forever."
The gathering and the ushering away of new converts. The singing of "Just a Closer Walk with Thee".
The dismissal of the assembly out from the tent to the clarity of a sparkling late-summer night sky. The scenes remain vivid and awe-inspiring to us, some thirty years later.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010010111011100101110100101001101011111101011101110001101001111111011 01010110101110111100100111001101110111010001101110 0111101100 1100001011101 111110011 10101001100010 1101110 011111001111 11101001 110000101 1111100010 001011011 00101101 0110 011111101 101000100 0110011010101 1011010111110 11011111 111010 10101101010 110100 11010 01000010001111001011010111 0010100101101101001010110110101100101011110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,588 |
Words | 295 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 22, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 314 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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