Analysis of It’s Over When You Quit
Charles Edward York 1966 (Saigon, Vietnam)
It’s Over When You Quit
It’s not over when you lose
It’s over when you quit
The fight is is surely lost
When you don’t give a shit.
The boxer is the real winner
For rising from the mat
When the fighter chooses
A life not lying flat.
Rolling with the punches
Comes with every bout
So stick and move real well
And knock the mutha out!
Defeat is not the end
When you rise up again
Keep on fighting forward
And fortune will be your friend.
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| Scheme | A xAxa bcxc xdxd exxe xb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111 1110111 110111 0111101 111101 01010110 110101 101010 011101 101010 111001 110111 01011 011101 111101 111010 0101111 101101 111110111101100010101010010111111010100100010110010100101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 710 |
| Words | 141 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Perseverance defeats quitting
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