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
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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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