Analysis of Death Walks Beside
Youth ran away toward the front,
as death pursued from the rear
Catching me inside the paradoxical
whipsaw of life
I stopped, as the boy continued into the distance;
but the reaper stopped too
Wanting me to run some more,
preferring to attack from behind
As I turned to face my stalker, his eyes went down;
and his presence cast no shadow
He took two steps back, but I reached for his hand
while saying:
“Walk with me, keep up with me;
your job here still not finished
The boy has indeed gone; but
the man is not yet ready to go”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2017)
Scheme | XX XX XX XX XA XX XXXA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 1101101 1010100100 111 1110101001010 101011 1011111 010101101 111111101111 0110111 11111111111 110 1111111 1111110 0110111 011111011 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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