Analysis of Life & Death



Death is frightened by
What Life is capable of.
Acceptance is what
Death wants from Life.
Death wants so much
To be involved with Life but
Is always excluded.
Death is powerful
In its ability to end Life.
Death is iealous
Of everything Life possesses.
Acceptance is what
Death wants from Life.
Death is sad
And takes all happiness away.
Death is afraid,
While Life is sitting comfortable.
Death starts working
When Life grows tired and old.
Death is iealous
Of everything Life possesses.
Death takes from Life
What it so desires.
Death is always waiting
But Life goes on.


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 11101 1111001 01011 1111 1111 1101111 11010 11100 010100111 111 1101010 01011 1111 111 01110001 1101 111101000 1110 1111001 111 1101010 1111 111010 11110 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 573
Words 114
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 25
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 459
Words per stanza (avg) 100
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Written on April 17, 2021

Submitted by lcallison11 on August 18, 2023

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