Analysis of Avoid the Violent Path
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
Forsake not of my teaching,
Place gracefully on your head;
Through your ear, it is reaching,
As to that, your mind is fed.
Let sinners not entice you,
Never to lie in their blood;
For they will never construe,
In the deluge of a flood.
Hell will swallow them alive,
Going down into the pit;
Their souls will never survive,
Since not spiritually fit.
They would find all precious things,
And fill houses with plunder;
To cast off their lot that brings,
The wrath of God with thunder.
Do not walk their way with them,
Hold back your foot from their path;
For I know God will condemn,
To feel the force of His wrath.
For their feet run to evil,
They make haste in shedding blood;
Nets spread snared by the devil,
While drowning in the flood.
For their blood, they lie in wait,
Unaware of their demise;
In Heaven, finds a locked gate,
As Satan did take their lives.
The ways for the unjust gain,
Greed is taking away life;
Desire will cause them pain,
Being possessors of strife.
Copyright ©2023 Richard Newton Sherrer
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KDKD LXLX MNMN H |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111110 1100111 1111110 1111111 1101011 1011011 1111001 0010101 1110101 1010101 1111001 11100001 1111101 0110110 1111111 0111110 1111111 1111111 1111101 1101111 1111110 1110101 1111010 110001 1111101 011101 0101011 1101111 0110011 1110011 0101111 10111 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,023 |
Words | 226 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
The Enticement of Sinners Proverbs 1:8-19
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Written on March 16, 2023
Submitted by sir_ricky on March 15, 2023
Modified on March 16, 2023
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