Analysis of The Thing That Never Dies




Caught in a net of memory
Whose pale strings have learned reinvention
Muting the delusion I hung my heart to dry-
On willows weeping, evenings singing
Melodies far-reaching wherein angels cry

On footstools I was clinging
On thrones I was all feelings
Bending-Shouting-Clinging
To seas that never dry

Well-up in the silence
Burn me in my twilight
Take the rope that I had
Torn with careless guile
Only to discover-
Bewilderment I shuttered
That I sold a lover
To the devils at my side

Take me to my ruins
Where my only truth is
That I'm all about-
The things that never die.


Scheme XXABA BXBA XXXXCXCX XXXA
Poetic Form
Metre 10011100 111110010 100010111111 11101010 10011001101 111110 1111110 101010 111101 110010 11011 101111 11101 101010 0100110 111010 1010111 111110 111011 11101 011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 553
Words 103
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 8, 4
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 115
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on August 21, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Derrick Puente

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