Analysis of Get Ready for Christ’s Mass

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



You better be ready for Christmas on Friday,
The New Year’s just four days away.
Some call it one thing and others another,
But this is our Sabbath day!

Most claim they can see, but they’re legally blind;
The darkness has clouded their vision!
It’s not of the heart but only of flesh,
That they have received circumcision.

They wander around in this world without hope,
Not knowing which way, they should turn!
It seems as God gave them a spirit of stupor;
Though hearing they would never learn.

Let us not ask why God would do such a thing!
Because he knows the hearts of all men.
Instead let us praise God and rejoice that he told us,
That Jesus Christ will be our friend!


Scheme XABA XCXC XDBD XXXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 110110110110 01111101 11111010010 11110101 11111111001 010110110 1110111011 11101010 11001011011 11011111 111111010110 11011101 11111111101 011101111 0111110011111 110111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 683
Words 144
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 132
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Written on September 14, 2009

Submitted by dawg4jesus on December 01, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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