Analysis of The Old and Wise
The collection.
The doom.
The seers.
The boom!
The old and wise
Think of heaven.
A sheet of music is played,
And death is conquered.
No stick of dynamite
Can kill the souls
Of elect ones.
Music tells of the ancient.
The angels and
Kings of old
Tell a story that is
Always bold.
The knights
And the fights.
The castles
And the plagues.
Riding horse-back
And medieval raids.
Burning bodies
To quarantine.
A singing
Bard of old
Buys beer and gives gold,
To sing and dance, is told.
To rhyme in songs
With pints and throngs.
Making merry and cheers
With smiles and no tears.
Mighty and no lies.
The burning bush is wise.
The serpent tells of lies,
And will be burning in hell, no surprise.
| Scheme | ABXB CAXX XXXX XDXD EEXX XXXX XDDD FFXX CCCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 0010 01 01 01 0101 1110 0111011 01110 11110 1101 1011 1011010 0100 111 101011 11 01 001 010 001 1011 00101 1010 110 010 111 11011 110111 1101 1101 101001 11011 10011 010111 010111 0111001101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 693 |
| Words | 157 |
| Sentences | 19 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 36 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
This poem is from: Lead All Souls To Heaven God: Poem Book 2, on Amazon, It’s formatted in Kindle, large print, audio, hardcover, and paperback. Check it out.
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