Analysis of The False Rapture
We’ve redefined God
Into someone
Who fits
His image
Our vision
His vision
Inconvenient
Alongside things
That won’t let go
His message untimely
With bills to pay
And concrete goddesses
To which we pray
“a tail never tried to wag
a bigger dog”
As we chant inside the
False rapture
Of our own
Becoming
Hiding from the very
Light
That promises
—to show us the way
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
Scheme | XAXXAAXXXBCXCXXXXXXBXXC B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011 011 11 110 1010 110 010 0111 1111 110010 1111 001100 1111 0110111 0101 111010 110 1101 010 101010 1 1100 11101 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 399 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 23, 1 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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