Analysis of Deaths spoon



4. Poem: " Death's Spoon"
 * When my dreams of being fed,
  Comes to reality,
I only hope I am in my bier,
  Being fed by the spoon of death...
   Death's mighty spoon..

* When the reality of my journey strikes,
  Then the spoon of death must have fed me,
  And I, the unwilling glutton must have had my fill....
  For tasting the bitter contents,
The spoon never left my mouth...
  I hope my death is not by death's spoon....

*When the spoon of death feeds me,
  And I lay still in my bier,
  May they be no torrents of earthly floods,
  For I have journeyed to the estuarine,
  Never coming back..
Never a hope of comeback...
    Death's spoon..


Scheme AXBCXA XBXXXA BCXADDA
Poetic Form
Metre 1011 1111101 1110 110111011 10110111 1101 101011101 101111111 010010111111 11001010 0110111 111111111 1011111 0111011 1111101101 11110101 10101 100111 11
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 651
Words 138
Sentences 9
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 7
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 152
Words per stanza (avg) 40

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All about death

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Written on September 21, 2022

Submitted by stephenabah240 on September 21, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Abah Stephen

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