Analysis of Patients is a Virtue?
Tommy L. Maddox 1972 (North Carolina)
Patience is a virtue,
or so they say.
We wait and we wait,
day after day.
Wondering if the time will come,
or if it will just fade away.
So, we sit and we wait,
and we wait and we sit.
Time goes by as time does,
but still, we sit.
How much longer,
will these patients hold out?
A day, a week, or even a month,
waiting for the time to finally come.
| Scheme | ABCBDBCEFEGHID |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010 1111 11011 1101 10010111 11111101 111011 011011 111111 1111 1110 111011 010111001 1010111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 347 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Written on April 22, 2023
Submitted by tmaddox3 on April 22, 2023
Modified on April 22, 2023
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