Analysis of DEATH
Something
Wicked this way comes
Draped in crushed black velvet
It raps at the door
Inviting itself in-
Makes itself at home
Wondering, looking
In every corner
Lays on the bed
And covers itself up
Like a puff of smoke
It waits
Waiting
Cold icy fingers stretched
Black hollow glossy eyes like caviar
A black hole
Stares
Tongue, strained against white teeth like a snake in a jar
Lashes out
Scheme | ABCDEFAGHIJKALMNOMP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 10111 101110 11101 010010 10111 10010 010010 1101 010011 10111 11 10 110101 110101110 011 1 110111101001 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 391 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 315 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
About this poem
When it's time to go you cannot hide.
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Written on December 03, 1997
Submitted by ACABEO.EMILIA on February 15, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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