Analysis of Use Worldly Wealth to Make Friends for Yourself
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Change your clothes; head to the shack
Then when you’re done I’ll bring you back
I’ll change your mind so you won’t cherish
The things on earth which soon will perish
I want you to look deep within
Right past the flesh of sinful man
So, search your brothers for the truth
They may have lost while in their youth
Then you can bring them back again
To find that you have made a friend
| Scheme | AABB XX CCXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 1111101 11111111 111111110 011111110 11111101 11011101 11110101 11111011 11111101 11111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 392 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Written on September 10, 2016
Submitted by dawg4jesus on June 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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