Analysis of From the Bottom Up↑
Guidance to the straight path,
This is of the true vine,
His food for the righteous.
His water to thirst no more,
The cultivation of the Most High,
As your shield and your armor.
Seeking all the sun’s light,
To grow straight, true and tall,
Sacrifice is the only key,
And try this time to submit.
Get back inside of yourselves,
So shall it be in the end.
The way it was at the start,
Still you have no inheritance.
They are the entire cornerstone,
The Law, His mercy and criterion,
You didn’t want the Householders’ truth.
Because you wanted your own way,
Beat, stoned’ and killed them.
Yet they killed so many prophets;
The chosen had their chance,
A similar vineyard, and so on and on…
The same in which to plant,
Yes, fruit with seeds in itself,
Intertwined with so many fruit.
Many vines in all directions,
With strength of a strong foundation.
But nourished, a vineyard will grow;
By itself, it will not sprout.
Alone it cannot take root,
So now comes the time of G-d;
The seed has now been planted.
Now read from the bottom up.↑
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZP1 2 YI3 4 |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101011 111011 111010 1101111 00101011 1110110 101011 111101 1010101 0111101 1101101 1111001 0111101 11110100 11001010 0111000100 1110101 01110111 11011 11111010 010111 01001001101 010111 1111001 00111101 10101010 11101010 11001011 1011111 0111011 11101111 0111110 1110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,046 |
| Words | 223 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 33 |
| Lines Amount | 33 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 798 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 191 |
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Guidance to the straight path, This is of the true vine,
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