Form

For those of you playing at home, this week's sermon was in the general form:
Why?
What?
How?

But here's the thing that bothers me about form. In music, form can be so precise:
Verse
Chorus
Verse
Chorus
Bridge
Chorus

I mean, when we were studying sonata form or fugue forms in school, they always map out so elegantly. Your Theme is always the same number of measures, and each time it repeats it's the exact same length. But unless you are writing sonnets, it's really hard to use words to create these elegant symmetrical forms that always balance mathematically. One of my heroes who was a musician before she was a preacher says that's exactly how she writes, in Sonata form or Rondo form or whatever all else, but I just can't see it. This week "what" had 3 parts and "how" had a set of 2 and then a set of 3. Maybe this is why I like knitting so much, the beautifully repeating geometric forms.