Analysis of To Be Or Not



To be or not

Poe hated sleep; slices of death he penned

Thinking, consciousness, memories to lend
moments that link to make a reason for time

Letters; words; thoughts; rhymes to stall
like a nervous person talking to avoid a fall
dreading that quiet scream; a dark call

Sanctuary disrupted; overwhelming our deeds
joy, pain void; partial choices with one need
well maybe two; to be or not to be

Form changes with waves of entropy
to believe or not to believe
less to least to nothing...A to Z

Sighing; we look away.


Scheme X A AX BBB XXC CXC X
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1101101111 1010010011 10111101011 1011111 1010101010101 101101011 100010010101 1111010111 1101111111 110111100 10111101 1111111 101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 514
Words 94
Sentences 2
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted by blongfi520_1 on July 14, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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