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
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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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 13, 2018

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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