Analysis of When Mankind Was Small
God gave you the intelligence to make fire,
NOT YOU, but other men and they shared
their intelligence and you were warm!
And you said, in your broken grunts of a language,
God is good!!!
God gave you the intelligence to make shelter,
NOT YOU, but other men who helped you build a home,
And you were warm, dry and protected.
And you said, in a long forgotten language,
God is good!
God gave you the intelligence to raise livestock and grow grains
NOT YOU, but other men who showed you how.
And you were well fed, warm, and safe.
And you said in a clearer voice, God is Good!
And then God gave you the intelligence to make a
wagon, a motorcar, an airplane,
NOT YOU, but other men who said,
These things will make your life easy and fun!
You said, Thank you God, God is good!
God, in His total wisdom, then gave man
the intelligence, NOT YOU, but very intelligent men
the knowledge and skill to cure disease!
And you and your wife fell on your knees when
your baby was cured of a virus at one month old
And you cried out, "Oh Holy God, You Are Great!
But then a new and very deadly virus came into your world, by His Plan and Design, but He gave very very intelligent men, certainly NOT YOU, the intelligence
to make a vaccine to stop it!! But you said, " NOT ME,
I'm smarter than those men! I don't trust those smart
doctors, scientist, and leaders and their "Drug"
They just want to control me!
And God said, I sent my Son to Earth to give you life and life more abundantly!
"LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY"
Accept your gifts from a Loving merciful God
As you have from the beginning AND LIVE!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111001001110 111101011 101000101 011011011010 111 111001001110 111101111101 010110010 01100101010 111 11100100111011 1111011111 01011101 01100101111 0111100100110 1001011 11110111 1111111001 11111111 1011010111 001001111001001 010011101 0101111111 1101110101111 01111101111 11010101010101111110011111010010011001100100 110111111111 11011111111 10100010011 1111011 01111111111110110100 110100 011110101001 1111001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,613 |
Words | 334 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
About this poem
The Gifts from our creator
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Written on October 21, 2021
Submitted by albertlavallee on April 16, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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