Analysis of What Death Denies
The artist dies again and again,
but his art does not
Bringing new life to the ages,
turning his back on time
The artist cannot last,
but his genius can
Living inside the spirit
—of what death denies
(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101001 11111 10111010 101111 010101 11101 1001010 11101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 222 |
Words | 41 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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