Analysis of It’s Not Enough
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
It’s not enough to know your word,
Its time for me to live it!
I went to see my son today
And I thought about you Father.
The clouds were high and the sky was grey,
Your hands were in the water.
He stood outside his swimming pool,
I was in it skimming leaves.
We talked about a lot of things
And what we both believed.
I finally recognized the truth,
He’d grown to be a man.
And one much better than I was,
He helps his son to stand.
He teaches him what’s right and wrong
And leads him by example!
He doesn’t hold back anything,
For Cam his time is ample.
I want to see your Son today;
I long to know you Father!
Then you can wipe my tears away
And we can love each other.
I feel your hands upon my feet;
Massaging them and washing!
This time I won’t avoid the heat.
I know the whole worlds watching.
It’s not enough to know your word,
Its time for me to live it!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 1111111 11111101 01101110 010100111 1100010 11111101 1101101 11010111 011101 11001001 111101 01110111 111111 11010101 0111010 111110 1111110 11111101 1111110 11111101 0111110 11110111 0101010 11110101 1101110 11011111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 882 |
Words | 207 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Written on July 14, 2010
Submitted by dawg4jesus on December 07, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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