Analysis of The Kingdom
Men, women and children are like gods.
Ants, beetles, cockroaches, butterflies
And killer bees are so, so very small,
Yet they have no care for us at all,
We could crush, burn and mutilate them,
Even invade their hives and take their queens' lives.
But Lo!
We let them pester and fester,
Wouldn't blame ourselves for extinction,
Nor let them part, for we have a heart.
The mysteries of God we can't understand,
Yet we stand in the palm of His hand.
To Him we are so, so very small, like ants,
Beetles, cockroaches, butterflies, and killer bees.
God looks above us and sets our path,
He lets us wander and roam like from a hill or comb.
He picks us up and puts us down and lets
His Son Jesus wears His crown.
He gives us so much, yet we're so blind,
We're roaming like mice in a maze, eating what we find,
Yet not all cheese is for our kind.
Some is a trap that will snap.
It's so cruel down here, not fair, yet up there,
They have so much to share.
They'll pick you up so you don't snap,
And fall into that last nasty trap.
But Lo!
God fights us, leaves us miserable and all alone,
Doesn't pick us up and put us back in his pen, since then,
He knows we'll jump out again.
We must make fellowship with Him and meet the sheep once again,
Or, we'll burn like crimson.
Let us count them all, even in every dark corner and creepy hall,
Don't let them fall, just reach out to them, that’s all.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010111 1101010 0101111101 111111111 11110101 10011101111 11 11110010 1010011010 111111101 0100111101 111001111 11111110111 1010100101 1101101101 1111001110111 1111011101 1110111 111111111 1101100110111 111111101 1101111 11101111111 111111 11111111 010111101 11 1111110000101 10111011101111 1111101 11110110101101 111110 111111001001100101 11111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,356 |
Words | 271 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 34 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,050 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 271 |
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From: I AM A MAN AS I SHOULD BE: POEM BOOK 1 on amazon
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