Analysis of Existence After Life



What is your opinion about life after death?
Does existence carry on or end with final breath?

What is your opinion about a heavenly place?
Does existence carry on or end without a trace?

What is your opinion about returns to earth?
Does existence carry on or end in no more birth?

What is your opinion about damnation h***?
Does existence carry on or end at closing bell?

What is your opinion about no place to go?
Does existence carry on or end like sunset glow?


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Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 111010011101 1010101111101 1110100101001 1010101110101 111010010111 1010101110111 111010010101 1010101111101 111010011111 101010111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 455
Words 86
Sentences 11
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 73
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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