Analysis of Lives Cut Short
What world wonders
wait while we wallow?
Storied vistas sights unseen
A road that's hard to follow
A path untold stretches far beyond
Looping, turning, rising, falling
It's time now to respond.
Buts it's too late
The decisions made
The sand has now run out.
The fight is done
The bell has rung
It's time to end our bout.
The paths cut short
The looping's stopped
We can now see the end
There's little welcoming in the darkness before that final bend
Lives Cut short will not see the light around that final bend
For us there is only darkness
For here's our journeys end.
| Scheme | XAXA BXB XXCXXC XXDDDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (30%) |
| Metre | 1110 11110 1010101 0111110 010110101 10101010 111101 1111 00101 011111 0111 0111 1111101 0111 011 111101 1101000010011101 11111101011101 11111010 1110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 580 |
| Words | 115 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 6, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
I wrote this during a bad time in my life when it seemed the darkness would never end.
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Written on December 11, 2017
Submitted by charlie.simmons92 on February 08, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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