Analysis of Life Or Death
Up or down
forward or back
Polarity ends
in a panic attack
Start, stop
the stillness portends
The middle a wasteland
lost years of pretend
Before or after
in front or behind
Timing entraps
with the devil’s design
Salvation, damnation
souls to contend
To live or to die
—to start or to end
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)
| Scheme | XA BA XB XC XX BX XC XC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 1011 01001 001001 11 01001 01001 11101 01110 01101 101 101001 010010 1101 11111 11111 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 339 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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