Analysis of Ashtray



I’m an unsuspecting prey
Could never know when
What time or what day
It’s fair to say
No matter who you are
You’ll die the same
Moves in mysterious ways
Calm and violent
Like Sebastian’s wave
If death is something you crave
You are not you
You’ve become a slave
A fictitious path that demons lay
Shinny and gold, fully paved
Death does not save
Each and every time
It becomes another’s pain
A big dark cave
What’s inside?
Nothing great
Keep your light at bay
Don’t you know?
You’ve been lead astray
It’s not all the rave
All you have isn’t what you gave
So put your mind away
Suffocate your thoughts
In the ashtray.


Scheme ABAACDEFGGHGAIGJKGLMANAGGAOA
Poetic Form
Metre 110101 11011 11111 1111 110111 1101 1001001 10100 111 1111011 1111 10101 001011101 101101 1111 101001 10111 0111 001 101 11111 111 11101 11101 1111111 111101 1011 001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 639
Words 119
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 28
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 485
Words per stanza (avg) 116
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Submitted by abi_v on January 28, 2023

Modified on March 18, 2023

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