Analysis of Precious microbe
Royston 1946 (Reading)
Living on a piece of dust in the cosmic sky
this insignificant microbe gave out a cry.
“Who am I in this immense universe? “ He sighed,
feeling lost in the great multitude as he cried.
“You are so precious to me,” came God's reply
“I loved you so much that I was willing to die.”
“So I came and stretched out my arms upon the cross
to redeem that poor microbe who was feeling so lost.”
Scheme | AABB AAXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 101011100101 1010011101 11101011011 10100110111 11110111101 111111111011 111011110101 101111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 401 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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