Analysis of Exit God
Gamaliel Bradford 1863 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1932
Of old our father's God was real,
Something they almost saw,
Which kept them to a stern ideal
And scourged them into awe.
They walked the narrow path of right
Most vigilantly well,
Because they feared eternal night
And boiling depths of Hell.
Now Hell has wholly boiled away
And God become a shade.
There is no place for him to stay
In all the world He made.
The followers of William James
Still let the Lord exist,
And call Him by imposing names,
A venerable list.
But nerve and muscle only count,
Gray matter of the brain,
And an astonishing amount
Of inconvenient pain.
I sometimes wish that God were back
In this dark world and wide;
For though sonic virtues He might lack,
He had his pleasant side.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE FGFGHIHI JKJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010111 10111 11110101 011011 11010111 111 01110101 010111 11110101 010101 11111111 010111 01001101 110101 01110101 010001 11010101 110101 01010001 10101 10111101 011101 111010111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 688 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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