Analysis of wisdom



Holding death nearby in your own hands in which you start at the end.
beginning time will draw near.
Holding yourself to extinction, beginning.
The chanting wanting, the end tasting.
Bloody emotions of anger.
The line of love and hate.
The blinding craft of life in which death is rule.
Wanting knowledge to increase sorrow.
Wanting to ease the pain with material soul.
Wisdom is not knowing, yet, not knowing is foolish.
Trickling down the mountain top
flowing as wisdom that cannot be stopped.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1011101110111101 0101111 10011010010 010100110 10010110 011101 01011101111 101010110 101101101001 1011101110110 1010101 1011011011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 485
Words 84
Sentences 11
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 397
Words per stanza (avg) 84
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