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
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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