Analysis of The Death Of Me
Larry Wells Jr 2003 (Nevada)
Love will be the death of me
And that is how it should be
All of my years have been spent to no avail
Hoping love would prevail
Many have come, many have gone
But it's still you that's on my mind come the dawn
And everything changes
While the war still wages
I could drown in all the tears I've cried for you
Sometimes I hope I do
I might well choke on the loose tongue that I bite
Seeing I've lost my light
They say that time will heal
Still I don't know if I'll ever learn to deal
This perverse infatuation will end me
A grotesque love that is not how it should be
| Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1110111 0111111 11111111101 101101 10111011 11111111101 01010 101110 11101011111 011111 11111011111 101111 111111 11111110111 1010010111 00111111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 570 |
| Words | 121 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Written on March 03, 2022
Submitted by larrywellsjr03 on March 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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