Analysis of Lazarus



The aspens turn from green to gold
Death can be so pretty
Arrayed as an antebellum ball
The fall has touched the city
A gust of wind is capable
Of remembrance or redemption
Bordering on winters hand
The seasons of contention
I walk on cobbled streets
Down paths I used to know
All around are reds and browns
A whispering of snow
Feeling reaches climax
I've stumbled by the past
A house we owned, the sepulcher
We built for living fast
The air is cooling quickly
The suns' under a veil
I'm nearing to Novembers kiss
And Decembers cold betrayals
From here on dusk is weaning,
Me into a bitter night
Into a realm of history
Where nothing turned out right
‘Bleed the night,' I mutter
Why must I stand alone?
On the cobbled streets of sapphire
Where I used to roam
Like vagabonds the shadows
Follow in the need
To find a resurrection
To make the memories bleed
The midnight blends the apex
The darkness has arrived
I turn to find a place to hide-
I fall into a dive
There I'll wash away
With all the others hiding
Take the liquors burning-
In the emptiness confiding
Then 4:00 a.m. will near
And I will stumble home
Lose myself in dreams again
And in the morning be reborn.


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Poetic Form
Metre 01011111 111110 01110101 0111010 01111100 10101010 1001101 0101010 111101 111111 1011101 010011 10101 110101 011101 111101 0111010 011001 110111 011010 1111110 1010101 01011100 110111 101110 111101 101011100 11111 110001 10001 110010 1101001 01101 010101 11110111 110101 11101 1101010 101010 00100010 1111 011101 110101 00010111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,127
Words 222
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 44
Lines Amount 44
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 934
Words per stanza (avg) 219
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Submitted on September 30, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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