Analysis of Doomsday
Stop pointing
accusing fingers;
first remove the plank
in your own eyes
before accusing others.
In your little world
you commit more atrocities;
you commit more crimes
than hardened criminals;
you wreck much havocs than savages
and drug barons
you are a cannibal
a beast of no nation.
You dread genuine and reasonable criticism;
you don't have the final say.
A mere mortal like Moses rebuked God;
but God himself had no choice
than to bow
and listen.
God harkened to Moses
and relented in his anger
and spared his own people
from destruction.
If not for Moses
God would have
destroyed
the Israelites on the way.
The journey
to the Promised
Land
would have been aborted.
But you a mere man
you hate and
detest criticism;
your ego cannot
be punctured;
just imagine.
Your disgrace
your humiliation
is imminent.
A little genuine criticism
and you flare up
and draw your deadly sword ready
to exact your pound of flesh.
Beware
Doomsday
is coming;
no mortal
can escape it.
You and I cannot escape it:
that Great judgement Day
when every creature will be paid for his deeds.
Remember
Adoni-Bezek reaped
his own great reward.
You too will reap
yours
yes, you will reap yours;
yes, you will.
Scheme | ABXXB XXXX XX CD E F XXXDGHCD GXXF IXXX XXEXXD XDX EXIX XFACJ JFX HXXXKKX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110 01010 10101 0111 0101010 01101 10110100 10111 110100 11111100 0110 110100 011110 1110001000100 1110101 0110110011 1101111 111 010 11110 00100110 011110 1010 11110 111 01 010101 010 1010 1 111010 11011 110 01100 11010 110 1010 101 10010 1100 010100100 0111 01110110 1011111 01 1 110 110 1011 10110011 11101 110010111111 010 1101 11101 1111 1 11111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,217 |
Words | 256 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 2, 2, 1, 1, 8, 4, 4, 6, 3, 4, 5, 3, 7 |
Lines Amount | 59 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
In your little corner you play God. You are above rebuke. Nobody can criticise, or revile you. You are above God. A big trouble awaits you.Think twice. Nobody is above error. Even God had to be called to order by his servant Moses, when, in his anger, he wanted to destroy his chosen people, the Israelites.
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