Analysis of Devoted to Destruction
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Your speech is just corruption
It’s polluted this whole land
You take the holy things of God
And twist them in your hands
You take the truth and stretch it
You hold lies as your desires
And everything that you have done
Will all be burned up in the fire
You cannot mix the truth with lies
And tell me that’s OK
It’s just because you don’t fear God
That you proclaim you’re gay
| Scheme | AXBX XXAX XCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 1111010 1010111 11010111 011011 1101011 11111010 0101111 111110010 11010111 011111 11011111 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 388 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Written on April 27, 2016
Submitted by dawg4jesus on July 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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