Analysis of Make/Do



A recurrent question, when meeting someone new,
is asking rhetorically:
"how do you do?"
This is more a greeting than finding how you feel.
No attention is given
to what is real.
A major inquiry, in acquaintance debut,
is asking to ascertain:
"what do you do?"
This is to classify and place in pigeonholes.
Stereotypes can confuse
people with roles.
A subtle inspection, as relationships take,
is asking to determine:
"what do you make?"
This is counting value on wealth and things with rife.
Not, did you "make a difference"
in someone's life?


Scheme ABACDCAEAFFFGDGHFH
Poetic Form
Metre 00101011011 1100100 1111 111010110111 1010110 1111 010010001001 110101 1111 111100101 100101 1011 01001010101 1101010 1111 111010110111 11110100 011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 527
Words 96
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 424
Words per stanza (avg) 93
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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