Analysis of Words Can Hurt (more than you know)
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
See how much you hurt yourself?
When you say I don’t care
You act as if you’re only
Throwing words into the air
That’s not the way you see it
When those words are said to you
It’s more like chopping onions
As you throw them in the stew
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111101 111111 1111110 1010101 1101111 1111111 1111010 1111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 244 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Written on August 23, 2021
Submitted by dawg4jesus on April 16, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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