Analysis of Suicide

Alice Walker 1944 (Eatonton)



First, suicide notes should be
(not long) but written
second,
all suicide notes
should be signed
in blood
by hand
and to the point—
that point being, perhaps,
that there is none.
Thirdly, if it is the thought
of rest that
fascinates
laziness should be admitted
in the clearest terms.
Then, all things done
ask those outraged
consider their happiest
summer
& tell if the days it
adds up to
is one.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIBJKLFMBNOPQRB
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 11110 10 1101 111 01 11 0101 111001 1111 1011101 111 10 10011010 00101 1111 111 0101100 10 11011 111 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 402
Words 72
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 22
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 314
Words per stanza (avg) 72
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Submitted by ChloeHills on April 20, 2020

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Walker is an American author, poet, self-claimed womanist, and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. more…

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