Analysis of A Gentle Spirit
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
What child takes the lid off of a cookie jar
To find delicious cookies
And then puts the lid back on
And admires the jar?
No, instead he forgets what the jar looks like
And only wants to taste of what’s inside.
So, it is with the children of God
When they see an old man with a gentle spirit.
| Scheme | AXXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101110101 1101010 0110111 00101 10110110111 0101111001 111101011 111111101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 295 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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