Analysis of I Needed To Die
So that you could sleep blissfully all night; languish in the aisles of
desire with an enchanting yawn engulfing your face,
I needed to wake up with my eyes incorrigibly open; fighting valiantly
against the most inconspicuous of evil hovering around.
So that you could eat appetizing food; masticate ravishing chunks of
poignant butter with stupendous relish,
I needed to sustain life on bland slices of bread and water; remain
famished with a large bandanna stringently encapsulating my stomach.
So that you could bathe in crystalline water dribbling from the alps;
apply the most bombastic of shampoo on your dainty skin,
I needed to be content rolling in a slush of dirty rain water; remained
unwashed on the trot; sometimes for days.
So that you could fly kites high and princely in the sky; tugging the
strings ecstatically with your petite hands,
I needed to run helter-skelter in vicinity; trying to capsize all the
broken ones entangled on trees; for you to continue your extravaganza.
So that you could play in a cool ambience of air-conditioner; caress
soft toys and view astounding cartoons,
I needed to traverse through the blistering deserts; bear the brunt of
disdainful sands right on my face.
So that you could wear the best of clothes; embellish you entire flesh
with beads of glittering gold,
I needed to gallivant naked in the freezing cold; bereft of a single
cloth on my body.
So that you could watch exhilarating pictures; inundate your ears with
enigmatic tunes,
I needed to tear every hair from my scalp; in evolving innovative ideas
for you to view.
So that you could laugh wholeheartedly; smile with passionate charisma
all round the clock,
I needed to slog it out against the uncouth world; shed tears of
scarlet blood in my unrelenting battle to win.
So that you could talk loquaciously; flamboyantly announce your presence in bustling crowds,
I needed to inevitably keep myself subdued; stay completely lackluster and dumb in public.
So that you could fantasize incessantly; day-dream rampantly about all the
wonderful lurking in this mystical world,
I needed to exist in pragmatic reality; transgress through a valley of rusted
thorns; for you to romanticize in the corridor of pleasure.
And So that you could live life like a princess; rule the entire universe with
the power of your wealth,
I needed to abdicate breath instantaneously; to metamorphose all your dreams
into perpetual reality; O! yes I NEEDED TO DIE.
Scheme | ABCX AXXX XDXX EXEE XFAB XXXC GFXX EXAD XX EXXX GXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110011100011 01011010101011 11011111111010100 0101010011010001 111111001110011 1010101010 110101111101101001 1010111000100110 1111101010100101 010101010111101 11011101000111011001 011010111 1111111010001100 1010011011 11011101000100101110 1010101111101010010 1111100110011010001 110101001 11011010100101011 01011111 11111011101010101 1111001 110111000101011010 11110 1111101001010111 0101 1101110011110010100010 1111 11111100011100010 1101 1101111010111111 101010101011 11111101000111001001 110101000110110101001010 11111001001110110 10010011001 110101001010011010110 111101000100110 0111111101010010101 010111 1101101010001010111 010100101111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 2,418 |
Words | 408 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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