Analysis of Among the Hogs
Came to myself
And the sight was not pretty
Came to myself
In a mud-spattered mess.
Father had rendered
My share in the family
Knowing full well
That it scarcely could bless.
Friends had been fast
As I opened the purse-strings
Life had seemed sweet
In the dark rooms of sin
Wine is a mocker
And strong drink is raging
Feeling a king-pin
I sauntered right in.
Now I am working
A stranger’s foul homestead
Feeding his swine
This, a Jew’s strangest thought
Missing my Father
And joys at the Home-Farm
Cursed this condition
My own lusts had wrought.
Might I go back
And appeal now for mercy?
Yes, it seems wiser
Than all else around
Sensing a hope
That defies all description:
Dead might be raised
And the lost might be found.
Scheme | AbAcdbecfghijkiiklmnjopnqbjrsptr |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 0011110 111 001101 10110 1100100 1011 111011 1111 1110011 1111 001111 1101 011110 10011 1110 11110 01011 1011 101101 10110 011011 11010 11111 1111 0011110 11110 11101 1001 1011010 1111 001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 726 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 32 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 575 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 133 |
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