Analysis of " Before and After "
Before creation,
There was just,
Pure energy, embodied!
A Creator, creates!
Outside of any strings,
Symmetry, thus perfect!
The Creator life brings...
In which we came!
This realm surreal.
Eden of garden's many...
There is no Decay!
Perfection, if not for a moment!
It is just as stated...
Man exiled and bang!
Eden became a dream!
The universe is born!
Man is transformed...
All suffer, greatly!
Mankind will die!
Just where is Eden?
The beginning now hidden.
The reality of life,
Our mortality of being!
Blood rots of Sin!
For a Sin,
Millennia's ago' follies!
A cross we now carry...
How heavy is it?
Hoping for answers,
That never will come...
What have we done?
From whence we came... Longing..
| Scheme | AXX X BXB X XCX X XXX X XCX A AXD E EXC X XXA D |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010 111 1100010 001001 111101 100101 001011 0111 1101 1011010 11101 010111010 111110 1101 100101 01011 1101 11010 1111 11110 0010110 01011 100100110 1111 101 10110 011110 11011 10110 11011 1111 111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 667 |
| Words | 120 |
| Sentences | 27 |
| Stanzas | 16 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 32 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on April 30, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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