Analysis of Bible tales from Billy-be-jiggered.
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I’ll tell ye boys
Storm up dere is a howling.
Your next shift on deck
Forty five minutes.
Terrified huh?
Well listen will ye
To that Jonah account.
God’s prophet.
Go to villainous Ninevah.
Preach repentance.
You gotta be kidding Boss.
They’re a horrible bunch.
Took a ship opposite direction.
Outrun God?
His plans?
Not a chance chicken -shit.
Storm rises up. Real bad one.
Superstitious mates toss out
The ornery prophet.
Swallowed up whole
By a stinking whale.
Three days in cramped muck.
Spat out on some beach.
Repentance returned
The Dead.
Don’t mess with the Lord.
His will and pointing Finger.
P.S. Ninevah heard him preach
Got turned around.
God’s mercy handed out.
Saved. Whole bunch of folks
And their critters too.
That’s the Tale
Man and whale.
(Returning Billy to his squeeze box.
Billows a-singing.
Ever so sweet.
Little buttons scampering.)
All Belowdecks much bettered.
ADAM AND EVE SCREWED UP
had a good thing going
Partners va-va voom.
Greenest living room.
And Man, he named the beasts.
Dominion had, released.
But snakes got in the way
One Law by God held sway
The Tree of Men’s Knowledge
And fruit.
Resist that food, galoot.
The Tree of Life from me.
A most delightful feed.
Now choose my Man, your Mate and
The hellish Serpent hate.
But they heard. Did otherwise.
Kings in their own eyes.
Pity…pretty shitty.
Outcome.
Planet still reeling.
There it is me boys.
Closing the Book.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101011110 1 1111 1111010 11111 10110 101 11011 111001 110 111001 1010 1101101 101001 101100010 011 11 101101 1101111 010111 010010 1011 10101 11011 11111 01001 01 11101 1101010 11111 1101 110101 11111 01101 101 101 010101111 10010 1011 1010100 11110 100111 101110 10111 10101 011101 010101 111001 111111 011110 01 01111 011111 010101 1111110 010101 111110 10111 10101 1 10110 11111 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,477 |
Words | 304 |
Sentences | 52 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 39, 22 |
Lines Amount | 63 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 376 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
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Written on April 26, 2024
Submitted by dougb.72572 on April 26, 2024
Modified by dougb.72572 on April 26, 2024
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