Analysis of Slightly Ajar
How many deaths have I truly known?
Not wheeling corpses from empty homes
But lovers, family, foe, and friends
I've seen before, but won't again
If I never see a person for the rest of my life
Are they truly alive?
If they never see me for the rest of their life
Am I truly alive?
How do you know when someone's dead?
Must the ground rest on their head?
Or could it be,
Forever more,
That someone dies,
When you close a door
| Scheme | XX XX AB AB CC XDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111101 110101101 110100101 11011101 11101010101111 111001 111011101111 111001 1111111 1011111 1111 0101 111 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 429 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Written on January 12, 2022
Submitted by dante_unknown on January 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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