Analysis of Riches Untold
I separate myself from you
As the moon separates from the sun
The cream separates from the milk
The pond separates from the scum
We all seek The Great Uniter
Thirty pieces of forked silver tongue
A gold standard heart, gold-plated
Iron pyrite for old, and for young
They say new friends are silver
They say old friends are gold
A virtuous woman more precious
Than rubies or riches untold
It was not a righteous Christian
Floated Moses downstream that day
It was no star-crossed New Age witch
Sent him on his appointed way
No inner-flowered Bodhi buddy
Not Ma Nature's pottage of sod
No swords of the Hordes of Ishmael
Oh no, it was the Ize of God
They say new friends are silver
They say old friends are gold
A virtuous woman more precious
Than rubies or riches untold
We legalize our rationale
Spritualize group fantasies
Mesmerize with criminal lies
Politicize our parodies
East of Eden, devise and scheme
Wynken blinken in the Land of Nod
At Truth's Crossroad, The Great Divide
Spoken softly, the Ize of God
They say new friends are silver
They say old friends are gold
A virtuous woman more precious
Than rubies or riches untold
I'll hang upon no cross for you
That trick has already been tried
Who'll hear or see though One returned
From the grave even after He died?
How can God allow this suffering?
I have a question for you:
The empty cross, the empty grave,
What if it really is true?
They say new friends are silver
They say old friends are gold
A virtuous woman more precious
Than rubies or riches untold
© John Kennan 2-9-2019
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 10110101 0110101 0110101 111011 101011101 01101110 101011011 1111110 111111 010010110 11011001 11101010 10101111 11111111 11110101 11010110 1110111 11101110 11110111 1111110 111111 010010110 11011001 1101001 11100 1011001 01010100 11100101 1100111 1110101 10100111 1111110 111111 010010110 11011001 11011111 11101011 11111101 101101011 111011100 1101011 01010101 1111011 1111110 111111 010010110 11011001 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,496 |
Words | 279 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 8, 4, 8, 4, 8, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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