Analysis of Life Changing Events
There are life-changing events that alter heart and soul:
ordinary episodes can modify the whole.
Leaving parents to start school embarks independence:
scholastic autonomy becomes the ascendance.
Getting a driver's license is a rite of passage:
a major revised status marking "coming of age."
Commencement ceremonies usher in employment:
financial sufficiency is the prime arrangement.
First intimate encounters transcend expectancy:
overwhelming emotion and stunning ecstasy.
A man and woman unite in holy matrimony:
connubial transactions producing harmony.
Embracing newborn babies form a tenacious bond:
impregnable defenses instinctively respond.
Undiscriminating death transports loved ones away:
an irreversible loss holds bereavement dismay.
Scheme | AA BB XX CC DD DD EE FF |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1111001110101 1001011001 101011101010 0100100010010 1001010101110 0100110101011 010100100010 0100100101010 1100010010100 010010010100 010101010100 1010010100 0101010100101 0100010010001 11011101 101001101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 734 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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