Analysis of "...and the food to eat."
He glanced t’ward the setting sun, took a breath and sighed.
Anxiously he settled ‘cross the porch and shield his eyes.
He’d made a count of ev’rything, all the things he owed,
rising price of gasoline, columbine he rode.
Rain was falling gently he walked into the house,
hung his hat across a peg, smile fixed on his mouth.
He’d made it through another year. Daddy would be proud
he hadn’t had to sell the farm.
Jimmy’d been allowed
to say grace o’er the summer and rose up on his feet,
“Thank you God,” he said, “for ev’rything and the food to eat.”
Scheme | XX AA XX BX BC C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010110101 1001101010111 11011110111 1011101011 111010110101 111010111111 1111010110111 1111101 1101 1111010011111 111111100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 568 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Family farm life in the United States
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