Analysis of On My Way Out

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



Eternal joy and eternal bliss
An eternity with nothing that I’ll miss
No sorrow, pain or worry there
It’s so good Lord; it’s just not fair

I’m glad that life’s not fair at all
Now if it was I’d only ball
I’d cry my eyes out day and night
Wishing that I had learned to fight

But I have One who’s fighting for me
And in the end He will restore me
He’ll call me and say: Come up here!
As those who killed me look on in fear

And then perhaps on my way out
I’ll turn around and give a shout
A shout of joy that I was saved
From among those men who are depraved


Scheme AABB CCDD EEXX FFGG
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 010100101 10100110111 11011101 11111111 11111111 11111101 11111101 10111111 111111011 000111011 11101111 111111101 01011111 11010101 01111111 101111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 578
Words 122
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Written on May 02, 2010

Submitted by dawg4jesus on March 09, 2022

Modified by dawg4jesus on March 09, 2022

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