Analysis of I Use To Wonder( But Now I Know)
Pamela Yvette Derry 1953 (San Antonio)
I wonder
Why do people hate
Why so much poverty
Why can’t we close that gate
Why people sleep out in the cold
Why education is not accessible to all souls
Why must we fight to have affordable care
Why must we die in so much despair
But now I know
Heartless people
Who flourish in greed
They see only their vanity
While others suffer in vain
They care not for humanity
They operate without sanity
The depraved heart
Now I know
| Scheme | XABA XXCC DXXBXBBXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110 11101 111100 111111 11011001 1010110100111 11111101001 111101101 1111 1010 11001 11101100 1101001 11110100 11001100 0011 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 419 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 9 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Answer to the depraved heart
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