Analysis of Chances in Life



Why are chances so different?
Should not they be all the same?
For each and every player
In life, as if in a game


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Ballad Stanza
Quatrain 
Simple 4 Line
Metre 11101100 1111101 11010010 0111001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 113
Words 26
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 87
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Written on September 12, 2019

Submitted on June 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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George Cook

Scotlans · 1934 · Lanarkshire

I was born, grew up, and worked in Scotland. I got married in July 1960 and migrated to Australia in 1965 under the then Assisted Passage Migration Scheme. For nine years in Scotland, 1956 to 1965, I worked for a large photographic company which also operated in Australia. I worked there until 1994 when I took early retirement. By this time the children had all grown up it gave my wife and I the chance to think about going ‘back home’ to visit relatives and relations. We did in fact have three visits 1998, 1999 and 2000. My wife and I shared our lives and times together for the rest of 58 years and four months when, sadly, my wife passed away in hospital. more…

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