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 |
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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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