Analysis of Cycle of life 2003



This life we live with time and space
so neatly packaged into years

Filled with things that bring us joy
or cause us pain and tears.

We gauge our lives on things achieved,
or things we've lost or won

But life is more than what we've done
but who we have become.


Scheme XX XX XA AX
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 11010011 1111111 111101 111011101 111111 11111111 111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 254
Words 52
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 51
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted by Pattycake1# on January 10, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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