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
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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Emilia Acabeo

Writing poetry since my college days in the 70's. Have a collection of over 100 poems. Married. Have one son. Former Assistant Principal in a Bronx elementary school. Retired. more…

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