Analysis of Purity
Bruce Davidson Culpepper 1969 (Nashville, TN)
The purity behind the eyes
Lingers where the sadness dies
It finds a place to hide away
And come again on one dark day.
For purity knows it's place
It hides in an innocent face
It only comes forth to bear
When nothing else is there.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01000101 1010101 11011101 01011111 1100111 11011001 1101111 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 233 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Written on March 05, 1998
Submitted by brucedculpepper on September 09, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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