Analysis of HOMO SAPIENS
Valentin Savin
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HOMO SAPIENS
(A man reasonable)
The old body weather fears,
The soul falls in decay.
Guilty are the years,
That refuse to stay.
The soul ages with the body
While ending its living span.
Life is amazing and Godly.
Hold onto your life, man!
You'll be buried when you part.
Perhaps recalled someday.
Or driven out of the heart.
You can't regain the past anyway.
You were born the perfect kind
And you must live and strife.
The Lord gave you spirit and mind.
Save them till the end of life!
| Scheme | XX XX ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 110 110 10100 011000 0110101 011001 10101 10111 01101010 1101101 11010010 110111 1110111 01011 1101101 11010110 1010011 011101 01111001 1110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 493 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
Age takes its toll and a person needs to live a life with dignity.
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Written on January 06, 1939
Submitted by valentin_s on June 20, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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