Analysis of Tall preacher dressed in black



There is no death, there is only sleep.

Shouted the preacher, he was a tall man

with a white beard that hung below his waist

He was dressed in black and standing.

On the buckboard of his wagon

in the dark of night, what little light

There was came from a kerosene lamp.

Hanging on the branch of an olive tree

a sign of peace above the preachers head

that lite up his face and white collar

As he stood there preaching the word.

All the towns people gathered around.

Lending an ear and singing praises to the Lord


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Poetic Form
Metre 111111101 1001011011 1011110111 11101010 1011110 001111101 11110101 1010111101 0111010101 111110110 11111001 101101001 101101010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 523
Words 116
Sentences 6
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 31
Words per stanza (avg) 8

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Submitted by johnnybee on August 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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