Analysis of Cross Training

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



If you lift up your cross and carry it
with you on your journey,
Then in the middle of your journey,
it will lift you up.


Scheme ABBC
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110101 111110 100101110 11111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 121
Words 28
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Written on July 07, 2016

Submitted by dawg4jesus on November 29, 2023

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