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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
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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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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XXXX XBXB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 385
Words 79
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
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