Analysis of Greed
Edwin Tanguma 1966 (CA)
By what I have seen
Things will never change
As long as there’s greed
There will be evil
It’s a driving force
That can change our lives
And if we submit
We become greedy
Our old character
Is changed forever
We’re never the same
As we were before
Some people do learn
While others do not
You’ll always find good
If you search for it
By peeling away
All of the layers
Built up over time
We may even find
Our hearts which we had
Lost so long ago
Enslaved by the greed
That’s found everywhere
Edwin Tanguma 08/10/2002
| Scheme | XXAXXXBXCCXXXXXBXXXXXXAX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (36%) |
| Metre | 11111 11101 11111 11110 10101 111101 01101 10110 101100 11010 01001 11001 11011 11011 1111 11111 11001 11010 11101 11101 101111 11101 01101 1110 10010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 533 |
| Words | 102 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 24, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
About this poem
I have no control over the order of the poems I am posting from the dark years…And just for the record…It’s not as if i was not offered heroin while I was in prison…I just made the conscious decision and choice not to go down that rabbit hole…
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