Analysis of All Is Vanity
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
A generation comes and goes,
But the earth remains forever;
For certain only, the Lord knows,
What each of us will endeavor.
The sun rises and will go down,
Hastens to the place it rises;
Just as a king will wear a crown,
Other kingdoms he despises.
The wind blows south and blows north.
The wind goes around and round;
On its circuits, the wind goes forth,
While you hear the roaring sound.
All rivers run into the sea,
But the ocean is never full;
As the winds toss waves fancy-free,
And where the fish are bountiful.
All things are full of weariness,
Eyes and ears are not satisfied;
As labor brings on dreariness,
Things that are not identified.
What has been being what will be,
What has been done that will be done;
Without the sun how will you see,
All the work that ever was done.
Is there a thing of which it is said,
This is new but has been before;
About old times that had been fled,
Kept under wraps in a locked door.
No remembrance of former things,
Nor remembrance of what comes later;
Only God will know what it brings,
As the great communicator.
Copyright ©2023 Richard Newton Sherrer
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE FXFX GHGH FIFI JKJK LBLB B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010101 10101010 11010011 11111010 01100111 10101110 11011101 10101010 0111011 0110101 11100111 1110101 11010101 10101101 10111101 01011100 11111100 1011110 11011100 1111010 11110111 11111111 01011111 10111011 110111111 11111101 01111111 11010011 10101101 101011110 10111111 1010100 10101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,110 |
Words | 245 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
Everything is Futile Ecclesiastes 1:4-11
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Written on March 23, 2023
Submitted by sir_ricky on March 22, 2023
Modified on April 17, 2023
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