Analysis of The Silence Was Death
Michael attacked the music
but the melody struck back
Driving him deeper inside himself
behind the sequence and the mask
Silence was death unspoken
and one that only he could hear
As the beat became his death knell
—a final moonwalk out of time
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2015)
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001010 1010011 101100101 01010001 1011010 01110111 10101111 0101111 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 288 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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