Analysis of Ecclesiastes, some kind of mess…



What have you done to me

After all the structures, the Temple

All gold, dear king.

Horses and serving warriors.

Tribute and huge acclaim.

Queen of Sheba heard

Of your name/wisdom.

AND YET you cleave

Unto strange wives.

Starting with that Egyptian.

I, God warned in both my

Visits and charges

You ignored same

Oh stubborn man.

Yours will be brought low.

Only two zones spared.

A manipulative servant

Will step into the rest.

Not your Blood.

(My friend David

Abhors what you have done.

His Son, his hope

And precious gem.)

Once mine as well.

Sayings of wisdom

Above all others.

But now, sayings of regret.

Sayings of conundrum.

Heartless time and chance.

Sighs of dismay.

I often shake my head when I hear how men will dedicate most of their time of contemplation to the Proverbs of Solomon. How handy. Thirty one chapters and thirty one days of the month. They are the sayings of an Old Covenant monarch who fell. Law MUST FAIL. Grace only can prevail. And the Bible students keep bowing at his throne; as did the Queen of Sheba. Better they pour over the Four Gospels and Acts, time and again.

Sadly I refer you to 1 Kings chapters ten and eleven.


Scheme X X X A B X C X X D X X B X X X X X X X D X X X C A X C X X X D
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 101010010 1111 10010100 100101 11101 11110 0111 1011 1011010 111011 10010 1011 1101 11111 10111 0010010 110101 111 1110 011111 1111 0101 1111 10110 01110 1110101 101010 10101 1101 11011111111110111110101010110011010110010111011101011110011111111010100101011011111011101011100110011001 101011111010010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,258
Words 283
Sentences 32
Stanzas 32
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 28
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Written on November 02, 2022

Submitted by dougb.72572 on December 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:24 min read
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Douglas Blair

Blogging poems since 2008. Once a lawyer in general practice. Then 32 years as Shipper in a heavy metal fabricating plant. Retired 2022. Married and father of two. Poet. Hiker. Harmonica Busker. Gospel enthusiast. Photographer. http://shootdempix.blogspot.com/ more…

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