Analysis of Wise in his Own Eyes
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
For men there is no love in sex
It simply meets a need
Its just like hunting wild game
Their appetite to feed
They claim that all they want is love
But none of them are faithful
They trample down the pasture land
And make their women hateful
Men tell you that they’re all alike
And treat them as possessions
But they don’t understand their ways
Their hopes, their dreams, obsessions
They want to make them happy
But they usually make them mad
And they don’t realize what they have
Until it’s what they had
No regrets or unforgiveness
Love her now and be her witness
| Scheme | ABXB XCXC XDXD XEXE AX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101 110101 1111011 11011 11111111 1111110 11010101 0111010 11111101 0111010 1110111 1111010 1111110 111000111 01110111 011111 10111 10101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 577 |
| Words | 110 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Written on September 27, 2021
Submitted by dawg4jesus on May 06, 2022
Modified on April 20, 2023
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