Analysis of Aliens and Strangers

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



Aliens and strangers here on earth,
We don’t even speak the same language.

And just like a woman in childbirth,
We suffer a great deal of anguish.

But when we’ve conceived,
Oh, the joy that we’ll find.
We won’t lie on the table exhausted.

Instead we’ll get up
And go running this time.
Eyes aglow and our hair as though frosted.

You’ve not come to a mountain
That’s blazing with fire
Or to words that you can’t bear to hear!

But you have come to God!
Who makes righteous men perfect!
Who removes all your worry and fear!


Scheme AX AX XXB XXB XXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 100010111 111010110 01101001 110011110 11101 101111 1111010010 01111 011011 10101011110 1111010 110110 111111111 111111 1110101 101111001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 541
Words 115
Sentences 10
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 67
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Written on September 17, 2009

Submitted by dawg4jesus on December 02, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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