Analysis of A Day of Disaster
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Why can’t some people ever rest?
Why can’t they find the way that’s best?
Is there no one to lead them home?
Have they been left here all alone?
And do the wicked rest in death???
When they have drawn their final breath.
The truth is that they never will.
Their burden they will carry still.
With stealth they practiced violent ways!
Until they just ran out of days!
| Scheme | AAXXB B CC DD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11110101 11110111 11111111 11111101 01010101 11111101 01111101 11011101 111101001 01111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 375 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 1, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Written on May 05, 2016
Submitted by dawg4jesus on July 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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