Analysis of Snakes and Ladders



               My Life is on fire, alight on the Blaze,
                  The journey is so long the direction a maze
                  I feel I’m on the bottom trying to get high
                  But never getting anywhere even if I try’

So as I cry inside myself and people walk on by,
            I know no one will stop and try to ask me why,
         Sometimes I feel higher but always much too low,
          Like trying to get to heaven, but hell is where I go,
            My friends help me get higher they’re my strong
                and sturdy ladder,  But some people are evil
                      they’re the snakes the cobra the adder,

My Dads a kind man, he like his shirt and tie,
               and my parents did love each other until
                                 that love felt a lie,

so as I cry inside myself and pray to god to die,
               if you were there and saw my broken life,
                       would you stop and ask me why,

By... Benjamin Jelley


Scheme AABB BBCCXXX BXB BXB X
Poetic Form
Metre 11111001101 010111001001 111101010111 110101010111 1111011010111 111111011111 01111011111 11011110111111 1111110111 010101110110 101010010 11011111101 01101111001 11101 1111011011111 1101011101 1110111 110010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,056
Words 176
Sentences 2
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 7, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 115
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Written on 2010

Submitted by snooky4711 on February 12, 2023

Modified on March 16, 2023

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