Analysis of Death
If I had the chance to change who I am
Would I take it?
If someone trusted me with love
And gave me their heart, would I break it?
The world around me, an echo of truth
And for the people inside it, I have no use
How can one explain their thoughts
Though to trust more, I really ought
But why open my soul if just to be hurt?
My protected trust is always burnt.
I wish that I could understand
And outstretched around me are open hands
But to take the jump, that leap of faith
Would always lead to certain death
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111111 1111 1110111 011111111 0101111011 010100111111 1110111 11111101 11101111111 10101111 1111101 0010111101 111011111 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 497 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 4 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 199 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on January 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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