Analysis of It’s all about Maintenance
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Why should you endure a beating?
For doing what is wrong?
Just like a fool who thinks he’s cool,
You’ll sing the world’s song.
I don’t know why this happened to me;
I did nothing to deserve it.
But while you walk in the world’s ways,
You are learning how to serve it!
What did you think you’d get from God?
For ignoring His commandments?
A crown that reads: I followed these,
Until I couldn’t stand it.
A fantasy world is what you live in,
Filled with deceit and lies.
It deadens your heart and controls your mind;
You can’t see with your eyes!
God doesn’t ask a lot of you!
Just follow his Son and believe.
But you can’t do what wisdom says,
Because you’ve been deceived.
Walk for miles and go through trials,
While learning to obey.
But don’t give in, to foolishness,
Is all I have to say.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXXB XCXC XXXX XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11101010 110111 11011111 11011 111111011 11101011 11110011 11101111 11111111 10101010 01111101 011111 0100111110 110101 111100111 111111 1110111 11011001 11111101 011101 11101110 110101 11101100 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 820 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Written on March 02, 2008
Submitted by dawg4jesus on February 11, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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