Analysis of We Die Young
Amogelang Disebo 1994 (Mahikeng, North West)
What is life if not a meaningless gamble?!
Death was never just a fable.
One minute we are dreaming,
The next, we are saints who are now sinning.
What if this is only a lucid dream?!
What if we only wake up after we die?!
Souls timidly tainted in silent screens...
Death is the only heavenly chariot we bitterly ride.
We're only ephemerons to this masquerade,
Which mask to wear to hide this pain?!
Triple dose of my prescribed poison,
We were raised on moderated toxins.
I'd rather be served my poison by my father...
Tell mother that she's the reason I fight with my brother!
We unknowingly made a covenant with the angel of death.
Hence curses follow us from our birth.
We're not the beautiful types,
Nor are we the confident kind.
We are the salt,
We are the unflavoured water...
We've been through it all...
Fought demons and married dragon's daughters.
We die young,
For we're the chosen ones.
Scheme | AABBCDEFGHIJKKLMNOPKQRSJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111010010 11101010 1101110 0111111110 1111100101 11110111011 1100100101 1101010010011001 11011101 11111111 101110110 101110010 110111101110 11011010111110 1010010100101011 1101011101 1101001 11101001 1101 110110 11111 1100101010 111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 904 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 694 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 165 |
About this poem
Dedicated to the loved ones we lost due to suicide.
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Written on December 26, 2022
Submitted by Amozing_Wright on December 26, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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