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.


Scheme AAXABXB CCDDEXE
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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Written on April 08, 2024

Submitted by dawg4jesus on April 08, 2024

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