Analysis of Look Again
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Throw the cracked pot in the water
Fill it up and let it leak
The water won’t get wetter
But the fish might get a treat
Come back awhile later
See the fish have made a home
The pot that you threw in the lake
Was never left alone
They don’t know where it came from
But the fish all came to see it
They came from schools; from classes
To examine and receive it
It isn’t filled with food or grain
But the fish they love it still
The pot splashed down from heaven above!
Some boy threw it from the hill
| Scheme | AXAX AXXX XBXB XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 10110010 1110111 0101110 1011101 110110 1011101 01111001 110101 1111111 10111111 1111110 10100011 1111111 1011111 011111001 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 507 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Written on October 13, 2021
Submitted by dawg4jesus on May 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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