Analysis of Save the poor Dalits
Ronald Bunch 1982 (Grand Rapids)
Smiling ever after.
Hopes and dreams,
Disaster.
Overcoming ways
Where a melody stays.
Open hearts,
Empty carts.
Like shopping for medicine,
Sharing the parts.
Parts for labor,
Parts for healing the sick,
Parts for God.
Open and empty.
My feet are shod.
In emergency I nod.
I toil for the sick.
I look for a trick.
I blow out a candle wick.
My last wish.
A candle light and dish.
I made a wish
For the sick and starving.
The cart is empty,
The register is full.
I bought some medicine.
Now to lull.
I'm calm and peaceful.
For the sick
I saved my candle stick.
I waved off fear and disaster.
I melt and met with my master.
Oh God to you
I lament.
Save these Dalits
In India.
These poor children
On the street.
Here, here is
My medicine!
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Scheme | ABACCDDE DAFG HGGFF FIIIX HXEJJFFAA XXBXEXXE XG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 101 010 1001 101001 101 101 1101100 1001 1110 111001 111 10010 1111 0010011 11101 11101 1110101 111 010101 1101 101010 01110 010011 111100 111 11010 101 111101 11110010 11011110 1111 101 111 0100 1110 101 111 1100 111010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 762 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 30 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 5, 5, 9, 8, 2 |
Lines Amount | 41 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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