Analysis of Today
Sean Taylor 1968 (Georgia)
Today
The sun didn’t shine
And the ground was soft and wet
The rain fell all day
Onto the dirt and washed it to mud
Yesterday
Wasn’t much different
A little more rain than today,
And a little more mud
To step in and ruin your shoes
But,
Yea though I walk
In the mud
Through the valley of
Dark, dank rain
I will fear no
Circumstances
For Thou are with me always
Even unto the ends of—
Just now
The weatherman said;
“85 percent chance or rain”
And dark
And mud
And ruined shoes
But I will fear no—
“And expect the same tomorrow.”
© Sean Taylor
| Scheme | AXXABAXABC XXBDEFXXD XXEXBCFF X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01 0111 0011101 01111 100101111 10 11100 01011101 001011 11001011 1 1111 001 10101 111 1111 100 111111 1010011 11 0101 01111 01 01 0101 11111 0010101 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 531 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10, 9, 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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