Analysis of 10 Holy Haiku and Senryu Poems
Ronald Bunch 1982 (Grand Rapids)
Routing Evil:
Over plains ink prints
Tales of God routing evil.
Jesus finds and saves.
Passion Sunday:
The passion of Christ.
Jesus was hanged on a cross.
Truly this was God.
Blind Man:
A blind man washes
Clay in the pool of Siloam.
Now he see's the light.
Thirsty Israelites:
Thirst in the desert.
Moses taps water from rock.
They now drink refreshed.
The Transfiguration:
Peter, James and John
Are taken up a mountain.
Jesus does transform.
The Light of Jesus:
We bless our candles.
Light has come into the world,
His name is Jesus.
Be Perfect:
Be holy for God.
Have love for your enemies
As the perfect Christ.
Free in Christ:
Jesus came to free
Us from the power of sin,
Death and selfishness.
The Salt of the Earth:
Having mercy and
Pursued for God's righteousness.
You are now earth's salt.
The Walls of Jericho:
Walking by the walls.
On the seventh day it fell
With trumpets and shouts.
Scheme | AXAX XBXC DXEX XXXX DXXE FXXF XCXB BXXF XXFX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1010 10111 1111010 10101 101 01011 1011101 10111 11 01110 100111 11101 1010 10010 1011011 11101 01 10101 1101010 10101 01110 111010 1110101 11110 101 11011 1111100 10011 101 10111 1101011 10100 01101 10100 0111100 11111 01110 10101 1010111 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 855 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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