Analysis of I WONDER PT 1
Barry Green Jr 1973 (Florida)
I WONDER...PT 1
I wonder...
...if the only absolute Truth
Is there is no absolute Truth
Is that absolutely True?
And if it is absolutely True
Then how can it be
If nothing is absolutely True?
And if it's not absolutely True,
Then perhaps there is an absolute Truth
Absolutely
I wonder...
...when God created the Universe
Was it Absolute or Relative?
Did He say, "Let there be Light!
Uh, or something"?
Did God command an absolute,
Or suggest a relatively?
I wonder...
...When God commanded Noah to build an Ark
Did Noah ponder this Truth? Wondering
Is this Absolute ? Or Relative
(Maybe it was Relative since his sons
Helped build it)
I wonder...
...If all this is relative
Is any Truth absolute?
Maybe gravity is relative
Maybe I can walk off my roof
Being relatively sure
I won't
F
a
l
l
!
I wonder...
...when the doctors patch me up
Which of my bones will be relatively broken,
And which will be absolutely broken?
AMEN
Scheme | a Bccddeddce Bxfagae Bxgfxa BfafxxaxxHH Bxiix |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 110 1010101 1111101 110101 01110101 11111 11010101 01110101 101111101 010 110 11010010 11101100 1111111 1110 1101110 10101000 110 11010101111 1101011100 11101100 1011100111 111 110 1111100 110110 101001100 10111111 1010001 11 1 0 1 1 1 110 1010111 111111100010 011101010 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 934 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 23 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 10, 7, 6, 12, 5 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14 6
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