Analysis of Philemon: A Freed Slave
Philemon: Book 57
To err is human, but to forgive is divine.
Our steps are ordered by God’s design.
Pleading for acceptance of a servant on the run
Is the anchor of this note to Philemon.
Paul appeals to Philemon to forgive a brother in Christ.
Should he owe you, I’ll pay the price.
Paul’s offer may have been a parable of sacrifice.
Just as Jesus paid the cost to paradise.
The living Word in full display.
The early church leading the way.
Here, the wrongdoer was delivered into a new humanity.
Through the redemptive blood of Jesus, by way of Christianity.
For he is walking by faith and not by sight.
Elevated above the storm and now sees the light.
Paul writes as an abolitionist to snuff out inequality.
Sharing the gospel of Jesus as a liberating ideology.
Philemon looked upon Paul with much adulation,
Since he witnessed about God’s grace and transformation,
reconciliation, and the hope of salvation!
In the book of Philemon, love has won,
As forgiveness and equality are for everyone!!
Scheme | X AA BB XC CC DD EE FF EE BBB BB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101 111101101101 1011101101 1010101010101 10101111010 101101010101001 11111101 1101110100110 1110101110 01010101 01011001 10110101001010100 1001011101110100 11110110111 100010101101 111101001110100 10010110101000100 010101111010 111001110010 00100011010 0011010111 1010001001110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,017 |
Words | 204 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
A biblical account of The book of Philemon: A slave freed by way of Christianity. It is an appeal to a master (Philemon) to forgive the slave and see him as a brother in Christ.
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