Analysis of Existence Without Living
Sir Evergrace Longsword 1967 (California)
To be of the flesh, and not be alive,
to walk on two feet, and not live to survive
To only be a memory, inside your own mind,
an endurance of nothing, with your own kind
To watch on the sidelines, as life passes away,
no one will listen, no matter what you say
An occupied space, with air in between,
a transparency of atoms, that are practically clean
A shadow that breathes, and echoes through space,
a singular occurrence, gone without a trace
An existence of life, that just turned to dust,
when the brother was gone, all he had was crushed
No footprints in the sand, except a hollow sounding wail,
blown away on the breeze, by a non-existent gale
Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE XX FF |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1110101101 11111011101 1101010001111 11001101111 11101111001 11110110111 110111001 00100110111001 011101011 010001010101 10101111111 10101111111 1100101010101 1011011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
About this poem
This is about how the author of this poem has felt his entire life, as he grew up, after his only living sibling died.
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Written on June 11, 2021
Submitted by RossStephen1967 on June 11, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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