Analysis of ODDS OF LIFE
ODDS OF LIFE
Odds are not wrong or right
They are not mistakes or misplace
They are odds
It is why some are taller and some shorter
It is why some are darker and some are lighter
Odds are what differentiates us
It is why we smile differently
It is why we don’t speak the same
It is differentiates our voices
It is why we don’t reason the same
It is why your nose is shaped like that
It is why our shape and size are not the same
Odds are never good or bad
They are what makes us different
Society may refer to it as abnormal
Sometimes families call it strange
What makes a twin, one black and the other white
All are odds
What makes one with down syndrome
Makes another born without brain
Some people don’t just have complete toes
Look that person you stare at
Because of their obvious birthmark
All are odds of life
We didn’t choose it, but it is how we are
One is glamorous and the other solemn
One is sanguine and the other phlegmatic
One is quick and the other calculated
The odds are responsible for your specialty.
Copyright 2021
Composed by Tim Taiwo Adebayo.
Scheme | A BXCDDXEFXFGF XXXXBCXXXGXAXXXXE BX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 111111 11101101 111 11111100110 111111001110 11100101 11111100 11111101 1100101010 111111001 111111111 111101011101 1110111 11111100 0100101111010 01100111 11011100101 111 111111 10101011 110111011 1110111 01111001 11111 1111111111 11100001010 11100010010 1110010100 011010011100 10 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,050 |
Words | 205 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 12, 17, 2 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 214 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Written on August 22, 2021
Submitted by TimTaiwo on August 22, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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