Analysis of In life We Are All Bound In Death



In life we are all bound in death
For nothing comes if not the end
And language is a fickle friend
That will end with human breath.

Every flower wilts and dies
What is the will we hold so dear
To remain alive year after year
To laugh and love, to smile and lie?

No, better now to say goodbye,
To leave behind the mortal chains
Of clear blue skies and summer rains
That blind our willfully human eyes.


Scheme ABBA CDDE EFFC
Poetic Form Quatrain  (33%)
Metre 01111101 11011101 01010101 1111101 10010101 11011111 101011101 11011101 1101111 11010101 11110101 1110100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 406
Words 85
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Written on January 14, 2022

Submitted by HermioneHerondale on January 14, 2022

Modified on March 23, 2023

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