Analysis of Joy; A Good Wife
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
With all of your working
And trying and striving;
You barely get back
What you need for surviving.
Everything under the sun is dissolved
And all the false prophets
Still say we evolved.
Open the book, put it back in the schools!
And stop raising up a whole class of fools.
Not everyone on the earth knows the word.
The men of the world just know what they have heard.
They work and they toil and strive all their life.
But they cannot find joy;
They can’t find a good wife.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 010010 11011 1111010 101001101 010110 11101 1001111001 0110101111 110101101 01101111111 1101101111 111011 111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 476 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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