Analysis of Who Cares?
Gamaliel Bradford 1863 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1932
Who cares,
Though age oppress,
And griefs distress,
And the long, long day
Rolls slow away
Its charge of pain?
Joy comes again
And charms our sight
With fresh delight.
Meantime—
Who cares?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 1101 0101 00111 1101 1111 1101 01101 1101 1 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 188 |
Words | 35 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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