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Devoted to Destruction

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)

Your speech is just corruption
It’s polluted this whole land
You take the holy things of God
And twist them in your hands

You take the truth and stretch it
You hold lies as your desires
And everything that you have done
Will all be burned up in the fire

You cannot mix the truth with lies
And tell me that’s OK
It’s just because you don’t fear God
That you proclaim you’re gay
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Written on April 27, 2016

Submitted by dawg4jesus on July 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXBX XXAX XCBC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 388
Words 76
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
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