Analysis of Bewitched to live
I give a deep sigh
It's so very hard to live
But it's harder to die
As we're bewitched to live.
If it was so easy to die,
Poor beggars at railway stations
To say a mournful bye-bye
Would be the first ones.
Trains thundering along before them
And no secure future
But they don't wanna go, all the same
They still wanna live, sure.
I give a deep sigh
It's so very hard to live
But it's harder to die
As we're bewitched to live.
We get used to everything
Just to stay alive.
And as long as we're living
To reach an equilibrium, we strive.
But we never reach one
Till we are well dead.
And death can't be undone,
So live the life instead.
I give a deep sigh
It's so very hard to live
But it's harder to die
As we're bewitched to live.
Scheme | ABAB acac xxxx ABAB dbdb efef ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 11011 1110111 111011 110111 11111011 1101110 1101011 11011 110001011 010110 111101101 111011 11011 1110111 111011 110111 111110 11101 0111110 111010011 111011 11111 011101 110101 11011 1110111 111011 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 703 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on March 15, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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