Analysis of Nothing was Hidden
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
The young men push the old aside
To rush to their destruction
To conquer towns and villages
And give them their instructions
They didn’t see the stop signs
As they rolled into the village
And so, they raped the women
And the houses all were pillaged
They dragged the loot outside the town
And sat down to divide it
The young girls and the women too
Their lust, they didn’t hide it
They carried off the precious things
The old men had acquired
They took their wives and children too
And all that they desired
The LORD looked down from heaven
Pondered all the young men’s deeds
The chaos and confusion caused
And so, he made them bleed!
And all the birds of the air gorged themselves on their flesh!
Scheme | XAXX XXAX XBCB XDCD AXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101 1111010 11010100 0111010 111011 11101010 0111010 00101010 11011101 0111011 01100101 111111 11010101 0111010 11110101 0111010 0111110 1010111 01000101 011111 0101101101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 708 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Written on February 12, 2022
Submitted by dawg4jesus on March 17, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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