Analysis of It’s Not Enough

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



It’s not enough to know your word,
Its time for me to live it!

I went to see my son today
And I thought about you Father.
The clouds were high and the sky was grey,
Your hands were in the water.

He stood outside his swimming pool,
I was in it skimming leaves.
We talked about a lot of things
And what we both believed.

I finally recognized the truth,
He’d grown to be a man.
And one much better than I was,
He helps his son to stand.

He teaches him what’s right and wrong
And leads him by example!
He doesn’t hold back anything,
For Cam his time is ample.

I want to see your Son today;
I long to know you Father!
Then you can wipe my tears away
And we can love each other.

I feel your hands upon my feet;
Massaging them and washing!
This time I won’t avoid the heat.
I know the whole worlds watching.

It’s not enough to know your word,
Its time for me to live it!


Scheme AB cdcd xxxx xxxx xefe cdcd gfgf AB
Poetic Form
Metre 11011111 1111111 11111101 01101110 010100111 1100010 11111101 1101101 11010111 011101 11001001 111101 01110111 111111 11010101 0111010 111110 1111110 11111101 1111110 11111101 0111110 11110111 0101010 11110101 1101110 11011111 1111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 882
Words 207
Sentences 15
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 82
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Written on July 14, 2010

Submitted by dawg4jesus on December 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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