Analysis of Motions of Our Greed
Motions of Our Greed
©2024 Bob Atkinson
so much for those who pine
for emotional release in times of crime
never ending passions clasp
one’s heart when filled with wilder acts
greed takes many forms in time
wanting, craving, stealing blind
some constructs one might never own
such as possessions elsewhere grown
I feel some things cannot be bought
honor, passion, or deepness of thought
my character I wish to build
upon a rightness of honored ideals
things not earned I’ll never crave
only that for which I’ve skimped and saved
don’t want to lose those possessions such
or
take from another what isn’t mine to touch
| Scheme | XX XAXX AXBB XXXX XXCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101 1100 111111 10100010111 1010101 11111101 1110101 1010101 10111101 1101011 11111011 10101111 11001111 0101011001 1111101 101111101 111110101 1 1101011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 632 |
| Words | 112 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
Written about the two kinds of People in Our Life. Those who strive to do what's right, and those who do what they THINK they can get away with.
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