Life rules



MY LIFE RULES

Be cool.

Take off your shoes.

Put both seats down,
and try not to be a tool.

Always cheers after each new drink
and check to see if the convo sinks
when you repeatedly ask
“are you okay?” -
and don’t take them to task
if they don’t want to play.

Be kind if you can,
and silent if you can’t -
or say what you think
in your mind,
no alarms.

Swift’s life rules are a jumbled up mess,
but so far,
(that I know)
they have kept me from harm.

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Written on November 02, 2023

Submitted by Sleekwood on May 09, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X XX AXBCBC XXAXX XXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 478
Words 115
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 2, 6, 5, 4

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