Analysis of Death and Me
"Why are you happy?" a man said to me,
So odiously, unrighteously,
"If death may come, how can you be?"
My mind had read:
"If there is no way to be deader than dead,
then I know not why this must be said,
but lest the cruel can reign forever,
and lest our vital balance sever,
life is a machine, and death the lever."
Once again mankind spoke to me,
with words of hatred and jealousy,
through violence and war, only I can see,
the peace that lies in death and me
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001111 111 11111111 1111 11111111011 111111111 1101011010 0110101010 1100101010 10111111 111100100 11000110111 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 450 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on July 25, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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