This sentence would constitute an appeal "to ethics" since many would agree that in an ethical world all players would have an opportunity to play, especially because this is how the experienced players got to be so experienced.
“The Winds is Fate” compares a person’s life to a ship at sea.
Personification and Enjambment.
The line "and my skin has betrayed me" implies that his skin has literally committed an act of treachery against him, which is something only a human can do; a human quality.
Each of the lines are actually a continuation of a sentence, and only come to a full stop until the end, thus enjambment was used here.