Analysis of The Game of Life



A rough Day,
A rough life,
It's the name of my game,
It's the game of life.

Each day is a fight,
A fight for my family,
Each day I give my life,
I even give my sanity.

I wake in the morning,
I breathe that first breath,
I pray to the lord,
That I mark my first step.

Into the bathroom,
I paint on my face,
The one that will get me,
Through another day.

As I go through the day,
I get spat on and bit,
But I promise each day,
I will never, ever quit.

If there is one thing in life,
I have ever learned to do,
Is fight back till I'm dead,
Never give an inch, don't be subdued.

The rules of the game,
Are dirty as you like it,
Twist the rules your way,
and fight the dirty fight.

No one is going to hold your hand,
Nobody is going to cry a tear,
When you fail the game of life,
Get your *ss back up and wipe your own d*mn tears.


Scheme ABCB DEBE XXXX XXEA AFAF BXXX CFAD XXBX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (38%)
Metre 011 011 101111 10111 11101 0111100 111111 11011100 110010 11111 11101 111111 0101 11111 011111 10101 111101 111101 111011 1110101 1111101 1110111 111111 101111101 01101 1101111 10111 010101 111101111 11101101 1110111 111110111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 805
Words 179
Sentences 9
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 76
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on November 16, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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