Analysis of For Goodness Sake
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
If you won’t drink coffee
And you don’t ever drink beer
Then you won’t need cigarettes
To calm all of your fears
If you’ll just stay sober
And you don’t get juiced
Then you just might find
That you’ve become some use
| Scheme | XXXX XAAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 0111011 111101 111111 111110 01111 11111 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 229 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Written on November 15, 2017
Submitted by dawg4jesus on August 17, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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