Analysis of Money To Be Won
The race is on, as it always is,
at the sound of alarm, a quick burst
of first at the start.
Moving to the middle, stuck in
the pack, he is giving it his
all-out, panting, sweating,
blinkered to all distractions.
The competition is fierce,
as he moves to the outside,
leaving others behind. Now is
not the time to rein in, to pullback,
for now is the time to run even faster.
For forty years the corporate bit
has dug deep into his soul
with few unbridled moments of joy.
One day, he dreams, he will live
the pastoral life on a golf course,
on a beach, without an alarm.
But this is not yet that day,
for now is the time to run
for there is money to be won.
Scheme | AXX XAX XXX AXX XXX XXX XBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111111 101101011 11101 10101010 01111011 111010 111010 001011 1111011 10100111 10111011 11101111010 110101001 1110111 110101011 1111111 010011011 10101101 1111111 1110111 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 671 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
The horserace as a metaphor for spending one's entire life working to acquire money seems to be apt.
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