Analysis of Bon Natalle
Green trees, gray squalor,
Sidewalks slopping with trash,
paper and boxes,
and castaway clothing,
food that is only half eaten;
The forgotten, ignored,
irritating, weary,
uncomfortable to be around
unkempt and disheveled,
those only a Savior could love.
The two worlds of Christmas,
one self-absorbed
narcissistic,
happy and ho-ho-ho,
The grey side,
shunted,
abandoned embarrassing relatives and acquaintances,
repressed requirements, obliterated obligations,
intentionally omitted
to meet the desire
of the season,
The true meaning is love,
not gifts or shopping,
but helping and lending a hand;
not drinking and eating,
but caring and seeking
to emulate Christ.
Help the hoping,
Love the listing,
magnanimous altruism
Is John 3:16.
by Douglas Noel
Scheme | AXXBC XXXXD XXXX XXXXXAC DBXBBX BBXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 1111 10010 01010 11110110 001001 10010 010001101 010010 11001011 011110 1101 010 100111 011 10 010010010000100 010100100010 01000010 110010 1010 011011 11110 11001001 110010 110010 1101 1010 1010 0100100 11 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 730 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 4, 7, 6, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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