Analysis of Revelations
John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)
There's a kosher cat with a tallit
Standing over Nietzsche's grave
Where Leo called Freddy an idiot
And he was right, I'm quite afraid
The Titanic is unsinkable
And so is Molly Brown
But one has hit an iceberg
And the other's going down
Meet me in Jerusalem
We'll have a cuppa tea
While weapons burn for seven years
And revelation sets us free
Walking down a wooded path
Met a poet whose paths were crossed
All roads lead to the end, he said
It's impossible to be lost
I chose, thus, the road of passion
Intrigued by flame, enticed
Met a soul with eyes of fire
Mat a man with a voice of ice
Meet me in Jerusalem
We'll have a cuppa tea
While weapons burn for seven years
And revelation sets us free
That consuming passionate flame
Burned to the core its cold
Ice, also it burnt, yet flames
Refined, shining forth as gold
I stand at the grave of Nietzsche
Of Frost, of Tolstoy, and of my past
On a journey never ending
In Light of love's enduring path
So meet me in Jerusalem
We'll have a cuppa tea
While weapons burn for seven years
And revelation sets us free
And with fresh mint in the teacup
As we emerge there from the storm
Brew it hot, like fire
Brew it cold, like ice
I don't care for tea lukewarm
© John Kennan 2014
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101101 101011 1101101100 01111101 001010100 011101 1111110 0010101 1100100 11011 11011101 0010111 1010101 10101101 11110111 10100111 11101110 101101 10111110 10110111 1100100 11011 11011101 0010111 10101001 110111 1101111 0110111 11101110 11110111 10101010 01110101 11100100 11011 11011101 0010111 0111001 11011101 111110 11111 1111111 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,183 |
Words | 237 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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