Analysis of Death Sonnet the First



If I may find a time to be within
And I want to know how to be always
In the forefront of the longest of days
In my time of dying I will begin

Innocent tears always flow down my skin
In my soul and heart and now it decays
Left to fall within all that I appraise
Light and darkness ever to my chagrin

If there was a way to wonder then I
Have no mercy for those that I defeat
Need to find another day to decry
Victory awaits your dying passion
Thoughts are lost and until now incomplete
If I persist in this I will defy


Scheme ABBA ABBA CDCXDC
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011101 011111111 001101011 0111101101 100111111 0110101101 1110111101 1010101101 1110111011 1110111101 1110101101 1000111010 1110011001 1101011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 504
Words 109
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 136
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted by TheMadPoet on June 19, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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