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
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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