Analysis of Grace in Time
Christopher Misener 1968 (Welland)
Old men in the park
sit and watch the birds fly by
Day by day they come and go
never know just when to die
Seems they all just disappear
when one is gone anothers here
But they seem happy in thier grief
thier place in time's just like a leaf
Falling gently from the tree
Because when it lands thier truly free
And life is long and hard and cold
and not everyone finds thier gold
But living well isn't much to ask
and a happy life is an easy task
And thats why old men in the park
sit and watch the birds fly by
| Scheme | aBcbdeffgghhiiaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001 1010111 1111101 1011111 111101 111111 111100101 101011101 1010101 0111110101 01110101 01101101 110110111 0010111101 01111001 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 495 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 402 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on January 31, 2021
Modified on March 14, 2023
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