Today
Sean Taylor 1968 (Georgia)
Today
The sun didn’t shine
And the ground was soft and wet
The rain fell all day
Onto the dirt and washed it to mud
Yesterday
Wasn’t much different
A little more rain than today,
And a little more mud
To step in and ruin your shoes
But,
Yea though I walk
In the mud
Through the valley of
Dark, dank rain
I will fear no
Circumstances
For Thou are with me always
Even unto the ends of—
Just now
The weatherman said;
“85 percent chance or rain”
And dark
And mud
And ruined shoes
But I will fear no—
“And expect the same tomorrow.”
© Sean Taylor
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Submitted by seanhtaylor on May 20, 2021
Modified on March 09, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXXABAXABC XXBDEFXXD XXEXBCFF X |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 531 |
Words | 109 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 9, 8, 1 |
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