Analysis of Will Death Ever Die?
The death must be a blind man
Walking aimlessly
Perhaps, with measured calculation, along
Visiting homes, hospitals, other places
At random
Waving his magical but powerful club
With measured calculation
Snuffing life from the wealthy and helpless ones
The death must be a very powerful man
More powerful than Mohammed Ali of our generation
And Mill Mascara combined
So powerful he could drag out by easy means
Powerful, almost untouchable people around the world
Even Hitler, Reshe Dayern, Saddam Hussain feared him
He actually floored them
The death too must be a very kind man
Unable to discriminate between the poor and the rich
Between the rulers and the rule
The death must be a disciplined man
Refusing to be intimidated by worldly possessions
And who possess them
Refusing to be bribed by those with means to do so
Those who amass wealth on their track
Death must be a very clever man
Mowing down the most cunning
The most trickish con stars
The death must be a very fast man
Travelling across the world in a jiffy
To strike down whose time is up
They may number in thousands and millions
All at the same time
With accurate precision
The death moves to strike and perish lives
With no permission and no apology
The death must be the busiest man
Working 24 hours
And throughout the ticking of the clock, untired
Not even slumber overtakes him
The death must be a healthy man
Never at any time feels sick or ill
Or sneeze since from the beginning
So, so, so, when will the death die
Or, will he ever die?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111011 10100 0111001001 1001101010 110 10110011001 110010 10110100101 01110101001 1100101010110010 0101001 110011111101 10010100100101 101011100111 110011 0111101011 01010100101001 01010001 011101001 010110100110010 01011 0101111111111 11011111 111010101 1010110 01111 011101011 10001010010 1111111 1110010010 11011 1100010 011110101 11010010100 011101001 1010 0010101011 11010101 01110101 1011011111 11110010 11111011 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,513 |
Words | 274 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 43 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,226 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 271 |
About this poem
The power of death is so overwhelming and the question is will it die itself?
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Written on March 18, 2023
Submitted by oziusman on March 18, 2023
Modified on March 18, 2023
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