Analysis of Life Below
Not free, not wise, not kind, not loved,
and tethered to the past
Unwilling to admit the truth,
he met his match at last
His Muse had warned time and again,
a reckoning was near
His eyes to close, his voice to mute,
beyond his greatest fear
Unsung, unwanted, lost, alone,
his nights became his days
His abrogation to regret,
the price all sinners pay
If just one chance to then go back,
and take that other road
The dark would pass, the light return,
and end his life below
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB XX XX XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 010101 01010101 111111 11111001 010011 11111111 011101 01010101 110111 1010101 011101 11111111 011101 01110101 011101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 511 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 08, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 11, 2019
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