Analysis of I Wanna Be Rich
I dream of finding treasure in a cave,
an iron box filled to overflowing with golden coin,
gem laden necklaces, and glittering chalice
one day.
If one can reap when he does the sowing,
I never want to make a downward switch,
I wanna be rich!
I want a room filled with gold I can wallow in like a hog,
diving into,
tossing handfuls up allowing them to drop,
like its such a sin to do.
I am telling all of you I have a great big itch,
hell man, I wanna be rich!
I despise being average.
I hate being poor!
I deserve splendid leverage,
since those are the ones
all the good people really adore!
I don’t want any duty to society,
or the environment,
don’t need no belaboring community call.
All I want is a gold-laden notoriety,
where I swing a rock hard 24
and stand damn near twelve feet tall!
I wanna be rich!,
filthy,
raggedy,
slobber mouthed,
walking around with a squeaking,
golden threaded stitch.
Damn,
all you dirty rotten dogs,
I wanna be rich!
I wanna be able to freely attend every hedonistic call.
When I walk down main street,
all the women see me
and before my elegant strut
they fall.
Every man crawls up to me who I chance to meet,
swearing I am the greatest thing him
or anyone ever saw!
Those who don’t have it
ain’t got no secular hitch.
Hell man, I wanna be rich!
When time arrives where I finally die,
for many miles around they’ll all come.
Every lady present will hang her head and cry,
speaking of all the good I’ve done.
Oh Lord,
the elaborate pictures they’ll surely paint!
Preachers shall stand before a vast murmuring crowd,
declaring me a true born saint,
regardless of the grandeur glittering in my debauched fun.
Out of everything underneath the noonday sun,
if the spirits can hear me when my declaration is spoken
and I could make only a single wish;
hell man,
I wanna be rich!
Scheme | xxxxabB xcxcbB dxdxx exfexf BeexabxxB fgexf gxxxbB hxhixj xjiiixxB |
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Metre | 1111010001 1101111001101 110100010010 11 1111111010 1101110101 11011 110111111100101 1001 1011010111 1110111 1110111110111 1111011 10110100 11101 10110100 11101 101101001 111101010100 100100 111010001001 111101100100 111011 0111111 11011 10 100 101 10011010 10101 1 1110101 11011 110110110011000101 111111 101011 00111001 11 1001111111111 101101011 110101 11111 1111001 1111011 1101111001 110101111 1001010110101 10110111 11 0010101101 101101011001 01010111 01010011000111 111001011 101011111010110 0111100101 11 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,844 |
Words | 402 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 5, 6, 9, 5, 6, 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 58 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
About this poem
This poem basically is the way I feel.
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Written on June 10, 2022
Submitted by Ziggerman on December 28, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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