Just Like Jehovah

[just mercedes]

I wrote the Divinity paper
in twelve different coloured pens,
in order to win a wager
for what we’d now call fifty pence. meter changes in this line
Mr Cottrill turned wrathful crimson
and accused me of heresy,
of belittling his religion
and demanded most jealously
if I’d do that in Mathematics,
in History or in French?
Just like Jehovah had been damaged, meter changes here too.
like life ain’t 6 to 5 against. uneven meter

Hi Ray - I feel you want to stick to rhyme and meter, but your poem doesn't quite achieve it. pens/pence isn't a true rhyme, but for me it's closer than French/against or Mathematics/damaged.

I like the odds at the end that refer back to the wager in the beginning, and 'wrathful crimson' is good imagery.
I wonder if you could find a replacement for one of the 'like' in the last two lines.