Analysis of Don't ask what you do not want to know
Holly Flame Maxey 1976 (baltimore)
Questions revel truth that should be left unknown
Fear runs in circles; death is certain
Life is not
A search for the light; turns into a fight for life
What is life? What is the truth?
How can we appreciate life without
Feeling the hot breath of darkness
Constantly on our backs
Keeping us down
Who made us and put us here
Can free our hearts, our minds
Yet; ;where do we search?
Where do we find this being or beings
Why search; when they have always been inside?
We should focus on our commonalities
Instead of our differences
LIfe is fast in perspective
Looking back we can be more objective
Looking forward we think more of death
Try to find what was always there
I look and I look
And I find is tears, Pain & destruction
Death is priceless; Just as life
You can not have one without the other
Free me, Kill my heart
I desire nothing in life
I only want peace in death
| Scheme | XAXB XXXX XXXXX X XXCCD XXA BXXBD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101111101 110101110 111 011011010111 1111101 111010101 10011110 1001101 1011 1110111 11101101 11111 1111110110 111111101 11101100100 011101000 1110010 1011111010 101011111 1111111 11011 011111010 1110111 1111101010 11111 10101001 1101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 857 |
| Words | 168 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 1, 5, 3, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 27 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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