Analysis of Get up, go to work, go home, go to bed
Get up, go to work, go home, go to bed
Is this what life’s all about I said?
Work, work, work every single day
just to earn enough my bills to pay.
Surely life must be much more than this.
Someone tell me what life’s purpose is.
Then, “You can have life more abundantly,”
I heard the Lord Jesus say to me.
“I am the door: if you enter in
then your new life with me will begin.
These things of earth will just pass away,
but the life I give is here to stay.
So I turned around and followed Him
and my life’s no longer dark and grim.
I still have to work to earn my pay
but He’s given purpose to each day.
Scheme | AABB XXCC DDBB EEBB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1111111111 111110111 111100101 111011111 101111111 11111101 1111110100 110110111 110111100 111111101 111111101 101111111 111010101 011110101 111111111 111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 615 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
About this poem
Written after reading John 10: 10 and traveling by train to London where a 'Community' artist had written the sentence "Get up, go to work, go home, go to bed" in large letters on the railway wall leading into Paddington Station. My mind linked the words with the "chuggardy chug, chuggardy chug" motion of the train and the poem has been re-written picking up the rhythm of the train.
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