Analysis of Last words
J J 1980 (NC)
Short is the time,
for tonight there will be no place
for lonely words to show face
Standing upon my crowed life;
a dead still breathing space.
My mind, overwhelmed
with a flood of memory,
Washed away is my innocence unsavory.
Bound to the depths of my moral ground,
Silent and unsound
I've remained underserving a crown.
Guilty I grow ancient
to rid me my worth,
Before I'm buried with burden
and rooted to earth;
docked with the dead.
Unleash the sword of my mouth,
a burden of tongue.
Unfed and unrecognized upon.
To shed light on
a self-inflicted breach of contract.
Them, still with their biased opinion,
their distorted vision intact.
An honest profession
tainted the blood of the innocent.
Death by the poison of their worst.
Signed off by the venom
in the pen of their best.
Temptation to naive parents
leaves them with burdens to purge
.
Unsuspecting youth
to rid them of their counterfeit scourge.
All with lies and untruth
to encourage a unified order,
Anxious death to those who oppose,
to others, a mental disorder.
With all this I remain a pawn
without freedom or valor,
While all them,
they grow old ,
and even more pallor.
they will become legends,
Even upon their death,
Upon mine, a myth.
nevertheless, they will die,
Along with their lies,
I will die a death free from alibies.
Scheme | X A A X A X B B C C X D E F E X X X G G H F H F D X X X X I J I J K X K X K X X B X X X X X A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 10111111 1101111 1001111 011101 1101 1011100 101111000100 110111101 10001 101101 101110 11111 01110110 01011 1101 0101111 01011 1001001 1111 01010111 111110010 10101001 110010 100110100 11010111 111010 001111 0101110 1111011 1 0101 11111101 111001 101001010 10111101 110010010 11110101 0110110 111 111 01011 110110 100111 01101 001111 01111 11101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,303 |
Words | 228 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 46 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 22 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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