Poem Analysis: Ride Called Life

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Ride called life is a poem written by an anonymous writer about how life's a ride of emotions and feelings and how they change and move like a ride, and I think this poem does a good job of representing theses ideas through repetition and a simple format, I chose this poem because it is about something deep and it made you think because of the way it is written and the content of the poem. The poem tries to create a sense of you being on a roller coaster yourself but one of emotions, sad feelings, happy ones, serious, and not so serious, but they are all represented in the poem along with the feeling that your ride should never stop early but they all stop in the same way, the writer didn't use any rhymes in their poem probably to represent

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