Analysis of Burden to covet
We seek to dream of nothing, yet something won't allow
Shackled to forever, we're betrayed by the end somehow
Broken is the onslaught our souls have begged to be
Never is the arrival of our final destiny
Forced to be the keepers of a most unwanted joy
We fail to reach the impasse, so wanting to destroy
Haunting us are shadows we will not own today
Denied a cure of sleep by the gods to which we pray
Reaching forth together in a world of laughing kin
Fighting for belief of a darkness deep within
Inheritors of vanity are what we are in all
Promised an atrocity towards the life we call
Our favorite curiosity involves the end we trust
Never to deliver what we simply beg it must
Given onto longing is our ever joining hope
That we shall reach the end of life's precious slope
So continues our obsession, yet obscure appears the goal
Over this, our torment, we cannot gain control
Nothing is a passion that something will not warrant
And it has now become a burden for us to even covet
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) |
Metre | 1111110110101 1010101011011 101011011111 101001011010100 1110101010101 1111001110101 10111111101 0101111011111 1010100011101 101011010101 11100111101 1010100010111 101000100010111 1010101110111 10101011010101 11110111101 1010100101010101 101101110101 1010101101110 0111010101111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 968 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 25, 2023
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