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 |
About this poem
A reflection about mature in life
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