Analysis of Faith Kept To Keep
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
With faith kept to keep,
All our worries and problems...
Can and could be healed to mend.
And yet...
Fakers of faith,
Who say they pray everyday.
With a doing to stay that way.
Seem to not allow God,
They claim to obey.
Are often heard to claim,
To feel alone to endure...
Their sorrows and pain,
Without empathy shown to them given!
'I don't understand.
What is it in my life am I missing?'
'Maybe...
Honesty.
Truth and the reality of it.
A selfish self deception.
Take your pick.
Only you would know better,
Than anyone else.
The answer to that question.'
| Scheme | XXXXXAAXAXXXB XX CCXBXXXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 11010010 1011111 01 1011 1111101 10101111 111011 11101 110111 1101101 11001 0110011110 1101 1110111110 10 100 1001011 0101010 111 1011110 1101 0101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 559 |
| Words | 128 |
| Sentences | 18 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13, 2, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 23 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Written on July 15, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on July 15, 2022
Modified by lpahtillah on July 15, 2022
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