Analysis of I AM THAT WHICH I AM!



I AM.
I AM a tense.
I AM a divine tense.
I AM a divine tense of prescience.
I AM a divine tense of prescient wisdom.
I AM a divine tense that is utterly immense.
I AM a divine tense of heavenly omnipotence.

I WAS.
And I AM.
And I SHALL BE.
The Light of the World.
That which is unbounded.
Beyond all sense of time and space.
Lord of all that mankind can ever survey.

I SHALL BE.
That which I choose.
Beyond man’s comprehension.
Beyond all earthly understanding.
Beyond the beginning of all creation.
I the Lord of the Earth am the great Alpha.
I, Lord of the universe, am the great Omega.

I AM.
And I WAS.
And I SHALL BE.
Although I AM in Time.
Yet I remain beyond Time.
For I AM the WAS and the SHALL BE.
For I AM the eternal Alpha and Omega.

“O ye my people,
Do not ye be afraid.
Stand still and see my glory.
Stand still and see the glory of the Lord.
Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.
See that which the Lord will accomplish for you.
O see that which the Lord will accomplish today.”


Scheme Abbcxbc daExxxf exgxghh AdEiieh xxejjxf
Poetic Form Tetractys  (26%)
Metre 11 1101 110011 1100111100 110011110010 1100111110001 11001111000100 11 011 0111 01101 111010 01111101 11111111001 111 1111 011010 01110010 01001011010 10110110110 111010101010 11 011 0111 11101 1101011 111010011 1110010100010 11110 111101 1101110 1101010101 11010010101 11101101011 111101101001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,010
Words 241
Sentences 35
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 7, 7, 7, 7, 7
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 152
Words per stanza (avg) 40

About this poem

This poem celebrates the Mystery of The Great I AM of Exodus 3:14, Exodus 14:13, and of John 8:12.

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Written on November 24, 2021

Submitted by karlcfolkes on November 24, 2021

Modified by karlcfolkes on May 23, 2023

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Liebe Mili’ (translated into English as “Dear Mili”), Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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