Analysis of Darkest of Nights
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Now you can come early or you can come late,
It doesn’t really matter you won’t have to wait.
He’s standing beside you to open the door
And help you come in your election is sure.
But not for the wicked, their fate is sealed;
Their hearts ever smoking will never be healed!
They stumble around in the darkest of nights,
Eternally tormented for refusing the light.
Alone now and desperate, they’re willing to fight,
But they’re still doing wrong never knowing what’s right.
They can look into heaven and see those rewarded,
But theirs is like the birth of a child aborted!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011111 11101011111 11001111001 01110101011 1110101111 11101011011 11001001011 010010101001 01101011011 111101101001 1110110011010 111101101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Written on November 07, 2006
Submitted by dawg4jesus on February 18, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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