Analysis of Never Ask

James Vincient Johnson 1952 (Algoma WV)



“There’s something in doing what’s right.”

Never ask I was told by myself
This hole was my own endeavor
 Always tried to do without wealth
Unlike brothers I favored and left

I’ll always be punished in my life
For all the troubles I bring
Thinking back on unkempt strife
I wish I could reverse everything bad

I’m still punished by my commitments
I failed to abide and keep Commandments
Mother was right I cared too much of others
And not enough for myself or brothers

Now sixty years have passed
But He made me see at last
What I should have done
Instead of what I shouldn’t have done

See this world can be cruel
If you fail to abide by His rule
I was the fool and it’s my worry
All I can say is FORGIVE ME, I’M SORRY


Scheme X XXXX AXAX BBCC DDEE XXFF
Poetic Form
Metre 11001001 10111111 11111010 1111011 011011001 11110011 1101011 1011011 111101101 111011010 1110101010 10111111110 010111110 110111 1111111 11111 01111111 1111110 111101111 110101110 11111011110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 750
Words 149
Sentences 2
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 23

About this poem

One must always think before acting or suffering the consequences whether good or bad may happen.

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