Analysis of Life Unbound
Waiting for life to come to me,
the clock ticked down to one
With barely but a second left,
my tendency to run
With nothing left but one last tick,
all motion seemed to stop
Perspective changed, then rearranged,
a lifetime on the spot
My eyes won’t blink, the fear too great,
of staying closed for good
As from a distant galaxy,
I finally understood
All life had boiled down to this,
eternity defined
When everything that ever was,
together crossed my mind
I left the past and future mired,
to breed and then deceive
And took this present life unbound
—unto my soul reprieved
(The New Room: May, 2022)
Scheme | AB CB XX XX XD AD XE XE XX XC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111 011111 11010101 110011 11011111 110111 0101101 01101 11110111 110111 11010100 110001 1111111 010001 1101101 010111 11010101 110101 01110101 10111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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