Analysis of Were They Saved?
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
When children start to go astray
They often go outside to play
In fields and woods where they can't see
But that's not where they ought to be
They can't see past their noses then
The darkness blinds them once again
With hardened hearts they kill their brother
and turn against their only mother
Destruction waits around the bend
They've gone the way of wicked men
They will not turn and come back home
So, on this lonely earth they roam
They cannot stop; their worm won't die
And all because they loved a lie!
Scheme | AABB CCDD XCEE FF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 11011111 01011111 11111111 11111101 01011101 110111110 010111010 01010101 11011101 11110111 11110111 11011111 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 512 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Written on October 13, 2012
Submitted by dawg4jesus on July 18, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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