Analysis of Virginia Massacre
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Raise up a child in the Way he should go,
When he’s old he will not depart from it,
But raise up a child with a lie that you show,
And you never know what will come from it.
You praise God with your lips you religious hypocrites,
But you don’t really care for His Word,
Now you think you won’t slip but you’ve already tripped.
And your lives, they all seem so absurd.
You rush here and there and raise money to share,
But your neighbors, you don’t even know.
What will come of all this? Will it end up in bliss?
Ask your God whom you don’t even know!
Scheme | ABAB XCXC XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Pantoum Quatrain |
Metre | 1101001111 1111110111 11101101111 0110111111 111111101010 111101111 111111110101 011111101 11101011011 111011101 111111111101 111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 564 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Written on April 17, 2007
Submitted by dawg4jesus on February 22, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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