Analysis of Pay Attention
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Who has heard our message Lord?
Does anyone even listen?
Now if we play a sour chord,
There’s something they won’t be missing.
Your words will never come up void!
Of this I am assured!
But how much longer will it be?
Till the righteous are restored.
I watch as evil rules the earth.
And blinds the hearts of men!
I wish somehow, we could break through,
And rescue all of them.
What was lost can now be found.
Your words they tell me so.
But if they won’t pay heed,
It’s into ruin they will go!
| Scheme | AXAX XXXA XXXX XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
| Metre | 11110101 1101010 11110101 11011110 11110111 111101 11110111 1010101 11110101 010111 1111111 010111 1111111 111111 111111 10110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 504 |
| Words | 115 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| 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) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Written on December 12, 2007
Submitted by dawg4jesus on January 23, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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