Analysis of The Most Dangerous Mixture

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



The world wants a positive message.
They can’t understand; they already have one!
They want to get an ego massage.
Everything is all right; I can just have fun.

They don’t want to hear the truth and accept it.
In the last days the masses will only reject it.

Because of the increase of evil it’s told;
In the last days the love of the many grows cold.

The evil is mixing the truth with a lie!
Because of this evil the many will die.

So what will become of those who have mixed it?
Their destiny is curtain; God already fixed it!


Scheme XAXA BB CC DD BB
Poetic Form
Metre 011010010 1101101011 111111001 1011111111 11111010011 0011010110011 01100111011 001101101011 01011001101 01111001011 11101111111 1100110101011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 538
Words 118
Sentences 11
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 82
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Written on May 10, 2010

Submitted by dawg4jesus on March 23, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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