Analysis of Always Try To Be Good



It is ao easy to be good, if only we will try,
And everthing is brighter when
the sun is in the sky.
While evil draws the darkness and
the shadows that are long
And there is never happiness in doing what is wrong
It may provide some pleasure and
Some comfort here and there.
But it is bound to bring regret and possibly despair
For God decreed the goal of life
And how to play the game
and if we violate the rules,
We have to take the blame.


Scheme ABACDDCEEFGHG
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111110111 011101 011001 11010100 01111 01110100010111 11011100 110101 11111101010001 11010111 011101 01110001 111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 429
Words 90
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 346
Words per stanza (avg) 90
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 15, 2023

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