My last dollar bill



Money, My long lost savior.
I would never have lost you if I could control my behavior.
All of my friends I had lost but you.
You came to me from my awful great aunt Sue.
When you came to me, my gambling addiction was created.
When I lost you, I was a popped balloon that had just been inflated.
From the highs to the lows, the bows and the blows.
My addiction created a wall between it and my life and it clearly shows.

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Elegy

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Written on May 10, 2022

Submitted by MAckerman on May 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBCCDD
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 420
Words 92
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

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