Analysis of The battle of Reading Rock - Part 02

Royston 1946 (Reading)



There in full view, the banner flew,
so God's love the fans might see
But Festival fans, had other plans,
and its' message did not agree.
For on Sunday, they had their way,
in the darkness of that morn
With curse and frown, they ripped it down,
the banner defiled and torn.

They shouted loud, before the crowd,
“If you are God then hear me”
“For we've no fear, so come down here,
and strike us dead for all to see.”
But God is not disturbed, or in the least perturbed,
by all their rants and rages.
These arrogant fans, with their wicked plans,
will face the Rock of Ages .

Narrative
An aerial view of the Festival site must have been looked very colourful and chaotic and I looked up at the banner claiming the 10ft x 8ft piece of ground for Christ. Unknown to me that attractive banner so lovingly made, was to be tor to shreds and burned in the fire by the fans as they swore and profaned against God..


Scheme XABAXCXC XAXAXXBX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 10110101 1110111 110011101 01101101 1111111 0010111 11011111 010101 11010101 1111111 11111111 01111111 111101100101 1111010 1100111101 1101110 100 1100110100111111010010011110101001111111101111010101100111111101001010111101011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 910
Words 174
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 2
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 233
Words per stanza (avg) 58
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Submitted by royston on May 28, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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