Analysis of No Mercy
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
And he shall stand in the glorious land,
with destruction in his hand
But a proverb a day drives the fool away
Don’t let him destroy your land
The fool here I say that can get in your way
Is a resident of your own mind
But a proverb a day will drive him away.
The fool will not be that kind
| Scheme | AABA BCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 0111001001 1010011 10100110101 1110111 01111111011 101001111 10100111101 0111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 293 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Written on February 09, 2022
Submitted by dawg4jesus on March 19, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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