Analysis of SILENT DRUMS



What is left to gain
When all I feel is pain
What is left to show
When all has fallen like snow

Hmmn! Freedom I ask for those who had left,
No! I am never in the state of deft.
Everything will surely go one day,
So I accept this with a graceful say.

Death they say takes away all the good things
that matter in time and being.
Death is a reality which one finds difficult to embrace,
But do not fear death as it's inevitable.

I cry out today
and say,
What is left to gain
When all I feel is pain?
Today may be the end of the sweet songs,
Cos the drums are silent.
But a start of another life is assured.

Sleep sound always
God ways was written as God's ways.
Yes! shed those tears away,
for the tears we share today
shall be no more.


Scheme AAbb ccdd xxxx ddAAxxx eeddx
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 111111 11111 1111011 1101111111 1111000111 10110111 1101110101 1111011011 11001010 11010111100101 111111101000 11101 01 11111 111111 0111011011 101110 10110101101 111 11110111 111101 1011101 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 738
Words 170
Sentences 13
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 7, 5
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Written on February 12, 2021

Submitted by Brown_Sketchys on December 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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