Analysis of Eternal Life.



Eternal life, a dream so grand,
A quest for immortality, a journey to withstand.
Through time and space, we seek the key,
To unlock the secret, to live eternally.

We search for youth, in elixirs rare,
In the depths of science, in the depths of prayer.
We long for more, than just a breath,
To live forever, to escape death.

But what of the cost, of living on,
The weight of memories, the pain that's gone.
The loved ones lost, in the sands of time,
The memories fading, the memories of a lifetime.

Eternal life, a curse or a gift,
A blessing or a burden, a decision to shift.
To live forever, to see it all,
The beauty and the horror, the rise and the fall.

So let us cherish, the life we have,
For eternity, is a heavy lad.
Let us make our mark, in the time we have,
For life is fleeting, like the petals of a flower, so fragile and sad.


Scheme AABB CCDD XXEE FFGG HIHI
Poetic Form Quatrain  (80%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 01010111 0110100010101 11011101 101010110100 1111011 00111000111 11111101 110101011 111011101 0111000111 011100111 0100100100101 010101101 0101010001011 110101111 010001001001 111100111 1010010101 11110100111 111101010101011001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 842
Words 187
Sentences 10
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 33

About this poem

I wrote this poem on the 1st of January 2023.

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Written on January 01, 2023

Submitted by angel-summer on January 12, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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I am 39 years old and live on the south coast of England. I suffer from PTSD, agoraphobia and manic depression. So, I have a lot of time to read and write. more…

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