Analysis of When death comes knocking
Kelley Davies 1983 (Dallas)
There is nowhere to run anymore
Death arrives at my doorstep
Waiting for me to open the door
She wants me like no lover has wanted me more
And I wish to fall into her arms
Swooning my last breath
The gun drawn to my bloody face
I want to crumble weakly into her calm embrace
And taken away from this awful place
To a sweet and everlasting place
Promise me the next life will be profound, my lover
And not so terribly miserable as this broken Earth
| Scheme | A X A A X X B B B B X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101 101111 101111001 111111011011 011110101 10111 01111101 1111010010101 0100111101 10100101 1010111101110 011100100011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 473 |
| Words | 105 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 12 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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