Analysis of A Window of Opportunity
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Your cities and your towns
And your houses lay in rubble
Because you could not see the day
The day the Lord called trouble
You only focused on the lies
And shared them with your brothers
Wherever you would look
You’d fail to see the many others
Lord open up my eyes
Like those of Elisha’s servant
Let me see the many others
On the mountains where they were sent
Help me to discern the reasons
That you sent them to me
Help me to be transparent
So, the world can see through me
| Scheme | XAXA BCXC BDCX XEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 110011 01101010 01111101 0101110 11010101 0111110 010111 111101010 110111 111110 11101010 10101101 11101010 111111 1111010 1011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 483 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Written on July 03, 2010
Submitted by dawg4jesus on December 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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