Analysis of Vanity
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
Vanity of vanities,
Everything is vanity;
And filled with iniquities,
Chaotic insanity.
What does man gain by toil,
Drudging under the sun;
To plow and till the soil,
Until the day has been done.
A generation arrives,
But another one will go;
While maybe one survives,
Only in Heaven would know.
The sun rises and goes down,
Hastens around for a new day;
As night falls upon the town,
The sky has turned a dark gray.
The wind is blowing to the south,
Its circuit the wind returns;
Caused by the Lord of His mouth,
From the momentum it earns.
All streams run into the sea,
Where the rivers merge to flow;
Wind causes waves to be free,
Against the shore to billow.
All things full of weariness,
The eye is not satisfied;
Only sees the dreariness,
People are not purified.
Copyright ©2023 Richard Newton Sherrer
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ BFBF KLKL X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001100 101100 0111 0100100 111111 11001 110101 0101111 001001 1010111 110101 1001011 0110011 10011011 1110101 0111011 01110101 1100101 1101111 1001011 1110101 1010111 1101111 0101110 1111100 011110 1010100 101110 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 816 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Everything is Futile Ecclesiastes 1:2-8
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