Analysis of Those Pentecostals



They are outside Town

With their strange noisy Church

And the tongues might

Be heard from the street.

It’s all signs and wonders

Just like Swaggart and friends

Must admit his piano was sweet.

We have our doubts

Here First Baptist, our bunch.

The Word rules it all

And the power gifts, utterance are DONE.

But their joy, eager showing up

Gets one to think.

How might things be if

Religion were fun.

Those folks search their Testaments

Back it all up.

Their sermons are not

All goose bumps.

And Jesus had said

In Spirit and in Truth.

A day comes when the saint

Bows AND JUMPS. (Read John chapter four with the Woman at the well.)


Scheme X X X A X X A X X X B C X X B X C X X X X X X
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 111101 0011 11101 111010 111001 101101011 11101 1110101 01111 0010110011 11110101 1111 11111 01001 1111100 1111 11011 111 01011 010001 011101 101111011010101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 660
Words 158
Sentences 12
Stanzas 23
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
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 21
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Written on April 11, 2023

Submitted by dougb.19255 on April 11, 2023

Modified on April 14, 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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