Analysis of Unholy Grail
The Christians
and the Gnostics
can either sect be right
Would God omniscient
have created
such violence and blight
To kill and maim
rape and burn
for scripture misconstrued
Defies the spirit
and the mind
— disproving Him anew
(Villanova University: February, 2024)
| Scheme | AABXXBXXXXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010 001 110111 11010 1010 110001 1101 101 11001 01010 001 1101 0100100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 269 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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