Analysis of The real winner

Joseph Grassa 1956 (Brooklyn NY)



How and who becomes a winner;
Is a winner someone who is always on time for dinner;

Is it the person who takes the easy way through life;
Is it the man who has the prettiest wife;

Is it the man who has the biggest Bank account;

Is it the lady with the sugar daddy;
Is it the lady with the sexiest body;

Well in our addiction the way we are told winners stay with winners;
So going to AA, NA is not about just going;
It's about looking and listening to see who has the answers and what they're doing;

Are they just talking the talk or are they walking the walk;
If they are you should ask him or her to be your sponsor;

Cause they just might be the one that strives to be a winner;
The man the woman the person who will help you be on time for dinner;


Scheme AA BB X CC XDD XA AA
Poetic Form
Metre 10101010 1010111111110 1101011010111 11011101001 110111010101 11010101010 110101010010 101001001111101110 1101111101110 101100100111101001110 11110011111001 11111111011110 11111011111010 010100101111111110
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 757
Words 173
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 22

About this poem

About rehabilitation from alcohol and drugs

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Written on January 15, 2023

Submitted by josephg.81565 on August 22, 2023

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