Analysis of Vanity



My heart deceived with lust from young days,
that time, when people falsely forget death,
mistake love with easy beauty, waste pleasures
wound the cosmos in perpetual seeking
futile passions that in old age simply end.

As free flowers man and woman arise
They stunned those yellowish fields uncultured,
the afternoon arrives and no more light
to light them endures, a pair of hyenas descend in
running confidently, laughing ferociously
don’t scare weak couple, your mission is to
bring color towards this abandoned
field, wild flowers shaping the voracious
sun on the mist of bloody land, both rush.


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Poetic Form
Metre 110111111 1111010011 01111010110 10100010010 10101011101 1110101001 11110011 001010111 11101011010010 101000100100 1111011011 110011010 1110100010 1101110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 607
Words 108
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 9
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 245
Words per stanza (avg) 49

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A reflection about mature in life

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Written on October 07, 2023

Submitted by talygarza on October 07, 2023

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