So Help Me God
Religion has too many givens,
the takeaways few, far between
Questioning ravaged, intelligence savaged
—the mind left to wander and dream
(Bryn Mawr College: February, 2020)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 11, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 171 |
| Words | 26 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
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