Analysis of Sin of pride

Larry Lowry 1959 (Pryor)



We love kindly and gently. But we never pick the ones we really we love.   Love is blind but our eyes see and we are afraid of new. Love is jumping off a cliff without looking. Our pride will not accept that we love such a person.


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Characters 230
Words 47
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 177
Words per line (avg) 49
Letters per stanza (avg) 177
Words per stanza (avg) 49

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We never find a reason to be the reason with the person we love.

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Submitted by Lowlarr on June 26, 2021

Modified on May 01, 2023

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Larry Lowry

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