Analysis of I Didn't Go To Church Today
Ogden Nash 1902 (Rye, New York) – 1971 (Baltimore)
I didn't go to church today,
I trust the Lord to understand.
The surf was swirling blue and white,
The children swirling on the sand.
He knows, He knows how brief my stay,
How brief this spell of summer weather,
He knows when I am said and done
We'll have plenty of time together.
| Scheme | ABCBADED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101 1101101 01110101 01010101 11111111 111111010 11111101 111011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 273 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 217 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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