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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Written on April 08, 2024

Submitted by dawg4jesus on April 08, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAXABXB CCDDEXE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 476
Words 101
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 7

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