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 |
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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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