Analysis of Life is a Choice
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
Looking up and going down
Don’t seem to be in sync
But when you’re reaching for the sky
It causes you to think
How can you look around yourself?
And see your circumstance
Then come to this conclusion
Well, I must be here by chance
If by chance you got here
Then by chance you will be leaving
Never really knowing Life
And never once perceiving
Never understanding that
By God you have been made
And giving into all those thieves
That just want to get paid
They will get paid by God
It’s true; eternity in hell
But you don’t have to join them
If you’ll just choose to get well
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD XEXE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1010101 111101 11110101 110111 11110101 01110 1111010 1111111 111111 11111110 1010101 0101010 100101 111111 01001111 111111 111111 11010001 1111111 1111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 589 |
| Words | 117 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Written on June 20, 2012
Submitted by dawg4jesus on July 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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