Analysis of Is It Really Matter?
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Sometimes I wonder if the things
I think I see are real
Like planes and trains and buses
Or the tires on a wheel
I know that they are physical
But could this be a dream?
And when I wake up from it
Will I laugh or will I scream?
There’s so much space in matter
That it barely does exist
There’s not enough in all the earth
To make a solid fist
Still men find ways to do it
Every time they think they should
But mostly it’s for evil
And too rarely it’s for good
The moon revolves around the earth
The earth around the sun
But everything revolves around
God’s Son the Only One!
Scheme | XAXA BCDC XEFE DGBG FHXH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01110101 111111 1101010 1010101 11111100 111101 0111111 1111111 1111010 1110101 11010101 110101 1111111 10011111 1101110 0110111 01010101 010101 1100101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 588 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Written on July 11, 2012
Submitted by dawg4jesus on June 13, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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