Analysis of TEAR ME A PIECE
Barry Green Jr 1973 (Florida)
TEAR ME A PIECE
Tear me a piece of Yesterday
Hang back a bit from Tomorrow
I've fallen, far more than I can say
But still I feel the Spirit flow
So today is the only day I hold
Now,time more precious than gold
I hear voice, it's singing a new song
The Lamb that was once for us Slain
The Blood that flows over every wrong
Behold He is the Lion who reign
Stand in the Word, move a mountain
Let your testimony flow like a fountain
Keep you lamps filled with oil at midnight
Watch continuously for the Bridegroom
In this present darkness it's we who are Light
Pierce the darkness, Give Christ the room
Don't be foolish, oil must be bought
Don't be left because you forgot
AMEN
Scheme | XABABCC DEDEFF GHGHIIX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 1101 1101110 1101101 110111111 11110101 1011010111 111011 111110011 01111111 0111101001 011101011 10011010 1110011010 11111111 101000101 01101011111 10101101 11101111 11101101 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 680 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 7 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
About this poem
At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’ “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’ “‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’ Matthew 25:6-9
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