Analysis of Eternity
And when we were happy
even with this defensive Paradise of the soul then
the most terrible truth was death.
Later when t
he white Bird
fled from our hands
we hoped it might come back again
but nothing could console
our soul and our eyes.
Because happiness is not tangible...
It's given and it's not given...
Appears and disappears...
While the most dominant and everlasting presence
is death...
No matter how remote it is
it is certain that no one would be able
to touch its Eternity
completely indifferent to the madness
and the passions of the moment
it sits and waits.
Scheme | ABC AXXBXX DXX XC XDAXXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 011010 1011010101011 01100111 1011 111 11101 11111101 110110 1010101 0110011100 11001110 01001 101100001010 11 11010111 11101111110 1110100 0100101010 00101010 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 3, 2, 6 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on January 05, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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