Analysis of Bible story belowdecks.the prophet Jonah.
Picking Up Pieces
Jonah story as told in a storm to settle the boys.
on April 27, 2024
I tell ye boys
Storm up dere is a howling.
Your next shift on deck
Forty five minutes.
Terrified huh?
Well listen will ye
To that Jonah account.
God’s prophet.
Go to villainous Ninevah.
Preach repentance.
You gotta be kidding Boss.
They’re a horrible bunch.
Took a ship opposite direction.
Outrun God?
His plans?
Not a chance chicken -shit.
Storm rises up. Real bad one.
Superstitious mates toss out
The ornery prophet.
Swallowed up whole
By a stinking whale.
Three days in cramped muck.
Spat out on some beach.
Repentance returned
The Dead.
Don’t mess with the Lord.
His will and pointing Finger.
P.S. Ninevah heard him preach
Got turned around.
God’s mercy handed out.
Saved. Whole bunch of folks
And their critters too.
That’s the Tale
Man and whale.
(Returning Billy to his squeeze box.
Billows a-singing.
Ever so sweet.
Little buttons scampering.)
Scheme | X AX A BXXXXXCXXXXDXXXDECXFXGXXXXGXEXXFFXBXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110 10101100111001 110 1111 1111010 11111 10110 101 11011 111001 110 111001 1010 1101101 101001 101100010 011 11 101101 1101111 010111 010010 1011 10101 11011 11111 01001 01 11101 1101010 11111 1101 110101 11111 01101 101 101 010101111 10010 1011 1010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 957 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 35 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 37 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
About this poem
A visit with Billy be Jiggered.
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