Analysis of This Life



This life is such a hard lesson.
Society makes it hard to show expression.
Can't decide whether to laugh or cry.
I cannot stand these brainwashed lies.

This life is such a strange mystery.
With a deep and dark deranged history.
Why should I believe that happiness exists?
When depression is all this life depicts.

This life has questions but no answers.
Yet we all crave for brain enhancers.
We'll never find the drug that heals.
Cause society wants our souls to steal.

This life is not what it seems.
Ask yourself, just what does life mean?
You will not like what you hear,
Cause it's so hard to face fear.

This life is what you make it.
Read between the lines of fake shit.
You must try to have some fun,
Before this life is over and done.


Scheme AAXB CCXX XBXX XXXX DDAA
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Quatrain  (20%)
Metre 11110110 010011111010 11101111 1101111 111101100 1010101100 11101110001 1010111101 111101110 1111111 11010111 10100110111 1111111 10111111 1111111 1111111 1111111 10101111 1111111 011111001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 747
Words 162
Sentences 18
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Written on 2019

Submitted by MitchTheFridge on January 17, 2022

Modified on April 18, 2023

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