Analysis of From Easton to West

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



Maryland is really nice
If you don’t look past the sugar and spice

If you look across the Chesapeake Bay
You’ll find its leaders are really gay

They fly around on silver wings
And say the most incredible things

But Chesapeake into the depths perhaps
And there you’ll find some huge mishaps

They’ve blown up bridges and tunnels and tracks
They’ve told bold lies that they won’t take back

And although they know that God can see
They forgot about Jesus when they forgot about me


Scheme AA BB CC DD XX EE
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 1001101 1111101001 111010101 111101101 11011101 010101001 110010101 0111111 1111001001 111111111 01111111 10101101101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 493
Words 91
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 64
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Written on December 10, 2007

Submitted by dawg4jesus on December 29, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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