Analysis of Ephesians 4:32.
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney 1801 (Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, ) – 1881 (Burlington County, New Jersey)
"The accuser of the brethren!"
How fitting is the name!
Since the creation of the world
His business is the same;
Bringing false accusations,
Sowing the seeds of strife,
Watching the halting of the saints,
And striking at the life.
If with the aspersed one he should fail,
The asperser's sure to fall;
For, losing Christian charity,
Have we not lost our all?
Ye know not, vain contenders,
What spirit ye are of;
Alas! ye are weak "defenders"
Of "the faith that works by love,"
Which purifies the feelings,
And makes all sweet within,
Tenders the heart before the Lord,
And keeps the spirit clean.
Go and adorn the doctrine
Ye are feigning to approve,
And seek for strength to follow Him
Whose first, best name is Love.
But cease from defamation;
The poet says 'tis worse
To steal his reputation
Than rob him of his purse.
Look home, look home, defamers,
There's business there for you;
Weed well your own deceitful hearts,
You'll find enough to do.
Perhaps that God, before whose glance
Each soul unveiled appears,
Sees that thy brother's work is done,
While thine is in arrears.
Then leave, ah! leave the little mote
Which thou, and thou alone,
Mark'st in his eye, and take away
The beam that blinds thine own.
Thou hast had much, yea much forgiven;
Then is it just and right,
From him, who is thy fellow worm,
To exact the utmost mite?
"Judge not," the blessed Jesus said,
"Judgment is mine alone;
He only who has never sinned
Should dare to cast a stone.
"But love thy neighbor as thyself,
His friend, his helper be,
And show that mercy unto him
Which God has shown to thee."
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (85%) |
Metre | 00101010 110101 10010101 110101 101010 100111 10010101 010101 11011111 01111 11010100 1111101 1111010 110111 01111010 1011111 11010 011101 10010101 010101 1001010 1110101 01111101 111111 111010 010111 111010 111111 11111 110111 11110101 110111 01110111 110101 11110111 111001 11110101 110101 110110101 011111 111111010 111101 11111101 101011 1101101 101101 11011101 111101 1111011 111101 01110101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,563 |
Words | 301 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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