Analysis of Higher Learning
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Storms will come and they will go
And leave behind destruction
But for the ones who simply know
There are great words of instruction
You should not put your faith in God
But think that He can’t reach you
In all the storms that come your way
He’s only trying to teach you
He brings you to a greater sense
Of wisdom in His knowledge
The kind of things you cannot learn
On earth in any college
| Scheme | ABAB XCXC XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 1110111 0101010 11011101 11111010 11111101 1111111 01011111 11010111 11110101 1100110 01111101 1101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 396 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Written on July 17, 2009
Submitted by dawg4jesus on November 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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