Analysis of How clear the end!
Having lived life desperately seeking a purpose,
Now in my advanced years I have met it face to face!
Having thought the rule over life and death, now all is lost.
Forlorn, I look about to seek new heights from which to see.
Following others, I resist the temptation of death's door.
From my earliest memories come the death's of people.
Those who were famous or not, but who lost the desire to live.
Clearly now, ever so clearly I can see my end.
But cowardly, I shrink from it.
How clear the end!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011100010010 1010111111111 10101101011111 01110111111111 100101010010111 11100100101110 1101011111001011 1011011011111 11001111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 489 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on September 05, 2018
Modified on March 14, 2023
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