Analysis of Convincingly (like baseball)



Not my job to
Turn you around
Show you the Light
Tonight.
Holy Spirit must show up
Or there is no game
No fateful pitch
No high fly.
No others brought
In to Home Plate.
Theirs is their fate.
Just wait.


Scheme ABCCDEFGHIII
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1101 1101 01 1010111 11111 1101 111 1101 0111 1111 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 202
Words 45
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 156
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Written on March 13, 2023

Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 13, 2023

Modified by dougb.19255 on March 13, 2023

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Wayne Blair

Born in London. Graduated law 1976 Practised eleven years, Married Hilary 1974 Two kids Lauren 1980 And Jordan 1987. Business failed 1987. Moved not knowing whither. Happy hills of Waterloo Region. Mennonite Country. Thirty four years in Industry. No complaints. Poet, photographer, nature hiker. Harmonica busker. http://puffnchord7.blogspot.com/ more…

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