Analysis of Questions



If you could ask one question of the dead
What would it be?
How are you?
Or do you miss me?
The times you were here
And the times you’re not
Have not diminished
You from my thoughts
I still remember
I still reminisce
I still keep the memories
Of the good times I miss
Did you see all you wanted to see ?
Or do what you wanted to do ?
In the end did you see your own peace through ?
did you have regrets in the end ?
do you have thoughts of eternal love you'd like to send ?
Or are these to many questions for you in your peace ?
do you want me to be quiet and simply cease ?
I wonder sometimes
what's it's like for the dead
do they ever regret things left unsaid ?
for me and my thought
I offer not
what was or will be
I humbly ask that when its my time
To graciously accept me
The lost and alone
resting under my stone
an eternal marker
rotting to the bone
ready for judgement
for the seeds I've sown

Eric (and sometimes not)


Scheme ABCBXDXXEFXFBCCGGHHXAAXDBXBIIEIXI D
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110101 1111 111 11111 01101 00111 11010 1111 11010 1101 1110100 101111 111111011 11111011 0011111111 11101001 1111101011111 1111101011011 111111100101 11001 111101 1110011101 11011 1101 11111 110111111 1100011 01001 101011 101010 10101 10110 10111 100011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 929
Words 199
Sentences 12
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 33, 1
Lines Amount 34
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 357
Words per stanza (avg) 98
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Submitted by EASN on February 12, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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