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


Scheme XAXAXXXXXX XXXX
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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