Analysis of Not Learned, But Listening

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



Tell me how else I can cleanse my house,
Without ruining all of creation?
What’s fuel for the fire must go in the fire,
Even if it had aspirations.

Therefore, consider carefully how you listen;
Whoever has will be given more.
You say you do not yet know my words;
But I tell you: “I am the LORD!”

The man who is willing to listen, I’ll use.
I’ll bring forth from his mouth a great sword.
Not a word he speaks I’ll let fall to the ground.
And his judgments will rule in the world!


Scheme XAXX AXXB XBXX
Poetic Form
Metre 111111111 0110011010 0101010110010 10111010 10101001110 010111101 111111111 11111101 01111011011 111111011 10111111101 011011001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 493
Words 108
Sentences 8
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 121
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Written on July 27, 2009

Submitted by dawg4jesus on November 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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