Analysis of Poets don't die
Matt Starking 1987 (Africa)
poets don't die
they live forever
words don't die
they last forever
I will live and die a poet
a profession I will never reject
a decision I will never regret
for it's a dream
I had in a dream
that all the material life
will past away
the flesh and the body will also decay
and all the riches left behind
for there's nothing to pay
like the fallen and dried leafs
which the air blows away
it your judgement day
and what do you have to say
but Like a spell
which rings in your ears a bell
my words are forever here to stay
for Poets don't die
they live forever
words don't die
they last forever
Scheme | aBABcdeffghhihjhhhkkhaBAB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 1011 11010 111 11010 11101010 0010111001 0010111001 1101 11001 11001001 1101 01001011001 01010101 111011 1010011 101101 11101 0111111 1101 1101101 111010111 11011 11010 111 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Poets don't die they live forever
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Written on July 07, 2017
Submitted by NanaKofiNkrumahAcker on June 09, 2022
Modified by NanaKofiNkrumahAcker on July 04, 2022
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