Analysis of Beside the Clay
Doug Blair 1951 (London)
Does it help
If I just simply sit a while
Here beside
You as you reel in recent pain?
Naught to say
No thoughts to re-invent your smile.
Hurts too much.
Will you hold up ‘neath all this strain?
Sun will rise
But it will surely take a while.
God is love.
You, clay upon His wheel again.
Turning, yearning
For relief and smiles.
Revelation comes with cost
His dawning Domain.
Consider our Ebook of years back.
| Scheme | XAXB XAXB XAXX XXXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 11110101 101 11110101 111 11110111 111 11111111 111 11110101 111 11011101 1010 10101 010111 11001 010101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 463 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted by dougb.21370 on February 06, 2023
Modified by dougb.21370 on February 06, 2023
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