Analysis of Which End Up? Election? Free Will?
Doug Blair 1951 (London)
Had a dream where
Wesley and Whitefield
Duked it out
Holiness or Reformed
Choosing versus Chosen
Cautious versus Care-free.
They went toe to toe
Blow for blow.
Looked as if Referee
Was Jordan Peterson.
They had been school chums
But Hebrews Letter
And Second Peter took
Them in different directions.
Oh, and there was
Also Wesley’s Method
Visiting, serving the Marginalized.
Whitefield cried out
Works, flesh, futile
Only the Blood
Only the Cross
What more ever possible?
Wesley cried out
Might lose it
Abuse it, repent!
Keep short accounts.
Whitefield just smiled
God chose it, friend.
Never to fail. Elected.
Gave them to His Son.
And through the ages
Tries to lasso the stars.
Brethren following the
Path of their Lord
Word for Word.
In a puzzle that
Will not be solved
Until cosmos dissolves.
Lighten Up…just Love.
Just Serve, hands joined.
Heart over head, every time.
| Scheme | X X A X B C D D C B X X X X X E X A F E X F A X X X X X E B X X X X X X X X X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 1001 111 100101 101010 101011 11111 111 11101 110100 11111 1110 010101 10100010 1011 10110 100100100 111 1110 1001 1001 1110100 1011 111 01101 1101 111 1111 1011010 11111 01010 111001 101000 1111 111 00101 1111 011001 10111 1111 11011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 1,032 |
| Words | 226 |
| Sentences | 21 |
| Stanzas | 41 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 41 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 17 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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Written on February 11, 2023
Submitted by dougb.21370 on February 11, 2023
Modified by dougb.21370 on February 11, 2023
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