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
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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Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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