Analysis of Left To Live
If you've nothing left to learn perhaps it's time to go.
Today, what will you discern? What will you come to know?
If you've nothing left to sate perhaps it's time to waft.
Today, what will you create? What will you come to craft?
If you've nothing left to dote perhaps it's time to keel.
Today, what will you emote? What will you come to feel?
If you've nothing left to live perhaps it's time to cave.
Today, what will you forgive? What will you come to waive?
If you've nothing left to tend perhaps it's time to pass.
Today, what will you transcend? What will you come to class?
If you've nothing left to grace perhaps it's time to fold.
Today, what will you embrace? What will you come to hold?
If you've nothing left to sire perhaps it's time to part.
Today, what will you inspire? What will you come to start?
Scheme | AA XX BB CC DD EE FF |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1110111011111 0111101111111 1110111011111 0111101111111 1110111011111 011111111111 1110111011111 0111101111111 1110111011111 0111101111111 1110111011111 0111101111111 11101110011111 0111101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 801 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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