Analysis of The Deacon



"Please, be my godson," was his sincere request;
Asking and pleading on the Lord's day of rest.
Yet his desire was not for God's will,
But to drink his erotic fill.

"Keep this secret, just us two;
It'll be so exciting and new."
A tender pat here, a juicy kiss there;
Love for the Lord he would swear.

The caustic stench of his smokes,
The malodorous aftershave between tokes.
Sitting so disgustingly on his lap,
Which, in fact, smelled like crap.

His secret, to my parents, I confessed;
Saving myself from utter distress.
Their letter to him in an asbestos envelope
Warned of punitive consequences for his next grope.

All victims heed the word of compassion:
We'll all heal in time, after a fashion.
Burned in my memory, those forty years prior;
You'd best beware the priest, the deacon, the friar.


Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF AXGG HHII
Poetic Form Quatrain  (80%)
Metre 1111110101 10010101111 1101011111 11110101 1110111 101101001 0101101011 1101111 0101111 0101011 1011111 101111 1101110101 10111001 110110101010 111001001111 1101011010 1110110010 101100110110 110101010010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 779
Words 143
Sentences 10
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 124
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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