Analysis of Trying to survive
"Trying to Survive"
Im trying to survive in a world thats cold...
Trying to survive in a land too bold...
Trying to survive where love hasnt shown...
In a world where no one cares...
In a land with nothing but fear...
Where hate is the majority with starvation and poverty...
A place where laws arent rules, for the dumb uneducated fools...
We try to better ourselves...
But life wont let you survive...
Its times like these we drop to our knees and pray...
We ask for a better way to start and finish the day...
Are the tools of compassion, just a rich mans fashion?...
Do we revert to the animals and act like cannibals?...
We prayed for the Holy Ghost...
We prayed for a religious man...
But God only sent us "Black Adam, Shazam"...
(By Neil Mckenzie)
Scheme | A BBXXXCXXADDXXXXX C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 11010100111 1010100111 101011111 0011111 00111011 1110010010100100 011110110101001 11110001 1111101 111111110101 11101011101001 1011010101110 110110100011100 1110101 11100101 1110111101 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 756 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 16, 1 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
About this poem
Based on a DC comic character
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Written on October 20, 2022
Submitted by jazztrumpet01 on October 20, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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