Analysis of My Lords Prayer
Save me, oh Master.
Show me your true way.
I promise I'll stay.
Stay my hand for,
My lifes a disaster.
Teach me my place and to
Master my feelings.
For in your presence my heart runneth faster.
And give me the strength
To endure the sh*t of my existance.
I pledge myself to persist
As your willing servant!
To gladly suffer your torment.
To openly suffer your ire.
To joyfully endure your ministrations.
Deliberations
Ecstatic demonstrations
Of pain and retribution.
Until my skin is peeling.
The welts, are never healing.
The wounds never sealing
The whimpers not abating
Humiliation, never fading
I give you this day, and forever hence
So that I may be bred,
Fed on your unholiness
And misled into deeds of delight and unrest.
Grant me a fleeting thought
And I offer you my soul.
My foul, retched hole of a life.
I will strive to please and service and submit.
And should I fail you,
Oh wonderful Master:
Cast me to the void,
And spare me no darkness.
Hear my prayer oh Master.
For though I deserve not your time,
I implore you to just hear my rhyme.
My submission.
My devotion.
My Master.
Scheme | ABBCADEAFEGHIJKKKLMMMMMNOEPQRSTDAUVAWWLLA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 11111 11011 1111 110010 111101 10110 1011011110 01101 101011111 111101 111010 1101011 11001011 1100011010 0010 010010 110010 0111110 0111010 011010 011010 00101010 1111100101 111111 1111 001011101001 110101 0110111 1111101 11111010001 01111 110010 11101 011110 111110 11101111 101111111 1010 1010 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,055 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 25 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 41 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 856 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 199 |
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Submitted on June 01, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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