Analysis of For the Godfather
A ragged choir of crows and mockingbirds
Storms into the morning.
Where do they hale from, these precentors of the day?
What is the reason for their peremptory
Disturbance of our sleep?
They are harbingers of God’s shocking words
To us all, adorning
The staff that we must scale along our temporal way,
Admonitors to mind us of the history
That we must ever keep.
[Dedicated to SGC]
| Scheme | ABCDE ABCDEB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101101 101010 1111111101 11010110100 0101101 1110011101 111010 01111101101001 111110100 111101 100011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 374 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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