Analysis of A Saint’s Prayer
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
How much more must I suffer with tears of injustice?
How much longer must we listen to evil men saying: Trust us?
I see the innocent being slaughtered and the evil goes on.
How much longer must we endure seeing all this wrong?
Father come quickly I cry in despair.
Your creation is ruined; its in need of repair.
Pour out your mercy in kindness and love,
Then rain down your fury from heaven above.
Destroy what you’ve made in the lake of your wrath,
And let us find rest for our souls here at last.
| Scheme | XX XX AA BB XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 1111110111010 1110111011011011 1101001010001011 1110110110111 1011011001 1010110101101 1111001001 11111011001 01111001111 011111101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 506 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Written on October 29, 2006
Submitted by dawg4jesus on February 17, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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