Analysis of He Washed the World Last Night
I watched my God was all the world last night
With sweet refreshing showers from on high
And then, in morning's purifying light,
I saw him hang all nature out to dry.
A cleaner white the rose and Queen Anne's lace
And bougainvillea now a brighter red
Since God was washed their every fragrant face
So lovingly and put them all to bed.
There's not a butterfly or bee or bird
That wings of flits along its roving way
But isn't so much cleaner afterward
Than was or wished it was just yesterday.
Oh how I wish He had of cleaned up me
Of dust and dirt as my old live oak tree.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 1111110111 1101010111 010101001 1111110111 0101010111 010010101 11111100101 1100011111 110101111 1111011101 1101110100 111111110 1111111111 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 559 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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