Analysis of I can hear the drums beating.
A J C 1958 (Swansea, MA)
I hear the drums beating.
Show me not your mournful life; it's all one empty dream. The soul is dead and slumbers. Everything is not what it seems. Your life is real, and the grave is not the goal. You return to the dust, and the grave becomes a hole. Enjoyment and sorrow will still be there tomorrow. It's farther away than a day. As we march to the grave, muffled drums are beating. Be a hero; don't fight; just enjoy the rest of your life, and I will still be your wife.
| Scheme | X X |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110 1111101111101011101101111111110011101101101001010101001011110111001101111101101110101011101011110111111 |
| Characters | 478 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 181 |
| Words per line (avg) | 47 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
About this poem
This poems a little about everything death sorrow and Joey meant tomorrow.
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Written on May 12, 2024
Submitted by alanswansea18 on May 12, 2024
Modified by alanswansea18 on May 12, 2024
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