Analysis of Down tha drain

Lary Walker 1969 (Detroit Michigan)



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Down the drain...In the words of Love:

Those Rico acts got em not wanting to be gangsta no more,

Last words he heard as a free man was "get down on the floor!!"

He suppose to get a pass because he did some charity work??,

But just last week he had his chopper out in the streets straight going berserk.

Picc a lane my nigga,  Is you rapping or banging?

You had the money, cars, and clothes but you couldn't keep maintaining.

Lots of talent in you, but your brain doesn't function too well.

Drugs and guns up in the mansion
And that shit is packaged for sale.

Stepping over a dollar so your ass can picc up a dime,

Like the detective on menace to society said "you done fucced up this time".

In the beginning the street corner was the spot to get you up outta the hood,

Got too big for your britches now you thinking you're Suge

You're considered a flight risk so you stucc, blame that shit on your fame

Remember they only see the pusher but really it's  the manufacturer's that them fuccers should blame.

Put yourself out on front street, now you're the first that they put in the cage

And lil buddy who y'all thought was solid is snitching on you , now you're all up in a rage

This may sound like I'm talking bout that nigga name thugga

But to be honest with you cuzzin I could be talkin bout ya brotha

If you've created a lane for you and your family to eat

Sit ya ass at the table and let them have those damn streets

Them people in that office are not as dumb as you think

Some niggas just get too big and get to thinking that their shit don't stink

If you don't talk about it, then how would a nigga know what the fucc you be doing

Those perkys and that lean got all your hard work ruined

The code has always been don't talk on them phones

Now wire taps got em trapped and now you got a new home

Kids gonna suffer, your momma gonna be the one thats feeling ya pain

All that hard work to get on top now it's all down the drain......damn


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Poetic Form
Metre 01110 1010111 110111110111011 11111011111101 1011101011111001 111111110100111001 101111110110 1101010111101010 111001111101011 10110010 01111011 101001011111101 10010110101001111111 00010011010111111001 1111110111011 1010011111111111 010110101011010010011111 10111111101111001 011011110110111111001 111111011111 1111011111110111 1101001110110011 11110100111111 11001101111111 1111110111011111 11110111110111011110 110111111110 0111111111 11011110111011 110101101010111011 11111111111101
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 2,009
Words 433
Sentences 12
Stanzas 30
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 49
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 51
Words per stanza (avg) 13

About this poem

Reality, words of truth

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Written on December 15, 2022

Submitted by larywalker1 on January 25, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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