Analysis of ASHES
Ashes to Ashes,
Dust to Dust,
Nowhere to be seen, not even a scene Hopefully, I won't have died of sin
I won't have to be seen again,
From the clouds I'll sit and watch From the graveyard, I'll rave among fellow corpses Favored by the heavens, happy I did the right
A person I once talked to,
Shared so much with will, grieve in agony, Just wishing I didn't have to vanish,
Will spend days taking a look at the gone me, but it'll be too late to say a thing,
But even if am gone, you'll hear whispers to your ears,
And I'll tell you how much I did love you And how much I still do in my invisible state
In consolation, I'll tell you am not gone because am an immortal
And am just invisible for the time being,
I'll tell you not to cry because I'm keeping watch over you
And I'll make you your favorite poetry and whisper it to you once am gone
Our arguments I'll have forgotten and perhaps await the day you'll join me in the world of the invisible,
Yes, I'll tell you am not dead,
Am not far away from you
Am just an invisible character taken by my predecessors
And I'll wish you luck in all you will be doing
Ashes to ashes,
Dust to dust,
Do not weep so much, for I loved you
I promise to remember you in this new world
But promise to keep in touch through your talk and fantasies
I will not be dead
But hopefully just invisible!
Scheme | ABxxx cxdxxedcx efcxdABcxxfe |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110 111 111111001100111111 11111101 101110110111011010101010101101 0101111 11111101001101101110 111100110111101111101 1101111110111 01111111110111110101001 00101111110111010 011010010110 111111011101101 01111100100010111111 10100110100010101111001100100 1111111 1110111 11101001001011100 011110111110 10110 111 111111111 110101010111 11011011110100 11111 110010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,357 |
Words | 292 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 9, 12 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 342 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
About this poem
The death of a person who pleads his loved ones not to grieve in sorrow
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Written on July 27, 2022
Submitted by debardeby9 on July 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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