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 |
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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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