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


Scheme AXA BBBCCC AAAA
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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