Analysis of This Ain’t No Norman Rockwell
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
If no one ever listened
If no one ever heard
The things these ears have taken in
Would just seem so absurd
I’ve seen a rich man stumble
Perverse in all his ways
I’ve seen a wise man strong but poor
Get cursed and sent away
They all refused to listen
When he stood up for the truth
They locked him up; they shut him down
They killed him in his youth
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 1111010 111101 01111100 111101 1101110 010111 11011111 110101 1101110 1111101 11111111 111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 354 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Written on November 09, 2016
Submitted by dawg4jesus on June 20, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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