Analysis of The Poem of the Day
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
If you give them what they want
They’ll surely follow you
And if you say what they believe
They’ll swear that it is true
Like doves and wolves, they need to feed
But one will eat the other
The senseless and the ruthless live
And die to kill their brothers
The beast wants you to take his name
So, you can buy and sell
But if you do you’ll surely starve
To death and rot in hell
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 1111111 110101 01111101 111111 11011111 1111010 01000101 0111110 01111111 111101 11111101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 385 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Written on July 06, 2014
Submitted by dawg4jesus on July 23, 2022
Modified on April 29, 2023
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