Analysis of Achieving right balance in faith.

Douglas Blair 1951 (London)



There can be revelation
So new they want to shout
It seems to liven Sundays
And blow the cobwebs out.
And someone said Lord speaketh
In new ways to this age.
As if the old lacked vigour
And had to yield the stage.
But Jude holds up a caution.
He watched as error grew
And saw strange men in love feasts
No telling what they’d do.
The carnal took right over
The lusts and silly talk
The hiding from repentance
The doctrines sadly mocked.
And Spirit gives the warning
A picture all should dread
How quickened eyes again despise
As fruitless trees “twice dead”.


Scheme ABCBDEFEAFGHFIJKLMNM
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Metre 111010 111111 111101 01011 01111 011111 110111 011101 1111010 111101 0111011 110111 0101110 010101 0101010 010101 0101010 010111 11010101 110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 567
Words 113
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 445
Words per stanza (avg) 104

About this poem

The little letter of Jude in the New Testament issues powerful warnings. Contend for the Faith, once delivered.

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Written on February 01, 2017

Submitted by dougb.72572 on February 01, 2023

Modified by dougb.72572 on February 01, 2023

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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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