Analysis of We Gather Together



We gather together,
Each approaching holiday season.
To greet, meet and feast.
Delicious meals.
Prepared for us to eat.

And...
As an afterthought.
We are taught to ask the Lord,
With heads to bow and eyes closed.
For more blessings from the Lord
To allow and grant us the ability.
With a doing to enable us to afford,
Even more to meet those wants...
Not to need but impress.
Those invited in our homes to address,
A feast.
Spread out abundantly upon a table.
Where not enough seats,
To accommodate the people.
Who came just to eat.
Then to leave.
With plates full of food.
A few remaining to stay and say,
How thankful they are to help...
Clean up the mess the others left.

We gather together,
To ask the Lord's blessings.
Then hasten to chase,
Through an exit to stuff our faces.
Done to do the following day,
With this to say...
Is there anything leftover from yesterday!

And each holiday season,
This to prioritize is on our minds.

'Oh...
Thank YOU Lord,
For blessing us to gather together.
Each season to meet, greet and feast.
Then leave with too much food to eat.
As we express our gratefulness to celebrate!

WHO ATE UP,
ALL THE MACARONI AND CHEESE?
AND WHAT HAPPENED,
TO THE HAM, COLLARD GREENS...
AND THE SWEET POTATO PIE,
I LEFT IN THE REFRIGERATOR LAST NIGHT?
I'M TELLING YOU,
WHOEVER DID THIS IS THOUGHTLESS!'


Scheme Abcxd exfxfxfxggchxhdxxixx Axxxiii bx xfacdx xxexxxxx
Poetic Form
Metre 110010 10101010 11101 0101 011111 0 1110 1111101 1111011 1110101 10101100100 101010101101 1011111 111101 1010010111 01 11010001010 11011 1010010 11111 111 11111 010101101 1101111 11010101 110010 110110 11011 1110111010 11101001 1111 111010110 011010 1101011101 1 111 1101110010 11011101 11111111 1101101110 111 1001001 0110 101101 001011 1100010011 1101 01011110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,326
Words 291
Sentences 33
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 5, 20, 7, 2, 6, 8
Lines Amount 48
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 170
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Written on September 04, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on September 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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