Analysis of Becoming The Messiah



I believe in Jesus
I believe in Buddha
I believe in Mohammed
—divinity shared

I believe in grace
I believe in epiphany
I believe in tomorrow
—the promise it bears

I believe in man’s ability
to rise above his nature
religion the jailer
—whose lies forestall

I believe that enlightenment
requires a commitment
to become the living embodiment
—of that One who calls

(The 1st Book Of Prayers: November, 2016)


Scheme XXXX XAXX ABBX CCCX B
Poetic Form
Metre 101010 101010 1010010 01001 10101 10100100 101001 01011 101010100 1101110 010010 1101 10110100 0100010 1010100100 11111 01111010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 420
Words 76
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 65
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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