Analysis of Claiming Themselves Believers
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
If God has given me,
The blessing of life to experience.
I feel obligated to express,
My appreciation and awareness.
With a doing to pray.
Throughout each and everyday.
Done to realize,
Never should I ever take for granted...
This gift of life given.
To live it with others sharing,
Ways to become better human beings.
Choosing to refuse,
Ignorance as a path that results...
In a happier way of life to decide,
It is best to live it.
Than knowing to witness choices made,
By others afraid of using their faith.
But remain to claim themselves,
True believers!
Although...
Fear truth to face,
Wherever it is heard to hear spoken.
'Who has you convinced,
That a fearing to live your life...
Is a benefit?'
'You don't understand.
I have bills to pay.
A status to keep.
And impressions to make.'
'What about your faith?
You know...
What you claim to have so much of?'
'God has nothing to do,
With the reality I am living through.
And besides,
I don't have time like that to waste.'
'You are not alone!'
'So...
You admit,
Having the same issues?'
'No!
I already know I am not alone.
However...
Apparently you don't.
And have chosen to stay feeling that way.'
'You don't know me.
Or the life I live.'
'Do I have to?
I am not the one,
Heard claiming to be of faith.
Living it keeps me observant!'
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Metre | 111101 0101110100 11100101 100100010 101011 0110101 1110 1011101110 111110 11111010 1101101010 10101 100101101 0010011111 111111 110110101 1100111011 1011101 1010 1 1111 0101111110 11101 10101111 10100 1101 11111 01011 001011 10111 11 11111111 111011 101011101 001 11111111 11101 1 101 100110 1 1010111101 10 010011 0110111011 1111 10111 1111 11101 1101111 10111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,297 |
Words | 297 |
Sentences | 38 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 22, 3, 4, 3, 4, 1, 3, 5, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 51 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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