Analysis of The Great Day of the LORD
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
Be silent before the Lord,
The day of the Lord is near;
Preparedness not be ignored,
Consecrated to revere.
His sacrifice on that day,
He will punish officials;
Of His rule who disobey,
Wearing foreign apparels.
Those with violence and fraud,
And leap over the threshold;
Worshipping another god,
Will then see His wrath unfold.
Cries be heard from the fish gate,
Wails from the second quarter;
From the hills for shouts of hate,
Death of your son and daughter.
Inhabitants of Mortar,
All the traders are no more;
Gold worthless to exporter,
Weight of silver ignore.
Search Jerusalem with lamps,
He will punish the smug men;
Those who will sleep with the vamps,
In brothels time and again.
They say the Lord will do ill,
That He will never do good;
As Satan will do evil,
People will stand where he stood.
Their goods then shall be plundered,
As their houses are laid to waste;
And their vineyards are sundered,
The wine will have a bad taste.
The day of the Lord is near,
And be waiting on their path;
For those who do not revere,
They will be feeling His wrath.
Copyright ©2023 Richard Newton Sherrer
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100101 0110111 01001101 100101 110111 1110010 111101 10101 1110001 011001 1000101 1111101 1111011 1101010 1011111 1111010 0100110 1010111 1101010 111001 1010011 1110011 1111101 0101001 1101111 1111011 1101110 1011111 1111110 11101111 011011 0111011 0110111 0110111 1111101 1111011 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,112 |
Words | 243 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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The Day of the LORD Is Near Zephaniah 1:7-13
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Written on November 26, 2023
Submitted by richardnsherrer on November 25, 2023
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