Analysis of Graduation Day
Roger Gilbert 1956 (Indiana)
The thunder crashed, the lightning flashed,
Throughout the still of night;
God calls to Jesus Christ His Son,
And shares with Him delight.
The time is now, to mount your horse,
And split the eastern sky;
To bring from earth My sons and daughters,
No longer shall they cry.
The Church awaits for Her Bridegroom,
And guards its precious oil;
In hopes, that Christ will come tonight,
And will no longer toil.
He´s come to take us home with Him,
To see that Crystal Bay;
Our hearts now sing with Joy Adoring,
It´s Graduation Day!
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCAC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01010101 010111 11110111 011101 01111111 010101 111111010 110111 0101101 011101 01111101 011101 111111111 111101 1011111010 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 512 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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