Analysis of In a Blaze of Glory
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Good advice from a reliable source
Is what I need today;
To follow any other course
Will just lead us astray!
What can you say when the teachers
Of the Law don’t have the answer?
The mixing of a lie with truth
Spreads through this world like cancer!
They think the world and Jesus’ words
Can somehow be their friends;
It is this wrong assumption
That will glorify their ends.
But he has told us plainly
It must be one or the other!
You cannot mix a lie with truth
And call Messiah brother!
| Scheme | ABAB XCDC XEXE XCDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1011001001 111101 11010101 111101 11111010 10111010 01010111 1111110 11010101 11111 1111010 111011 1111110 11111010 11010111 0101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 496 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Written on July 25, 2009
Submitted by dawg4jesus on November 08, 2022
Modified on March 31, 2023
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