Analysis of One Short Life
I am a child,
covered in jewels
of imagination,
lost in the luxury
of not knowing
what lies ahead.
I am growing up,
fake jewelry loses value,
and I hide from the lies
and beg for salvation,
hoping to plan
and asking the pain to pass.
I am an adult,
refusing the smallest
of my past dreams,
rejecting what,
in my mind,
could never be.
I am sickly, dying
in the arms
of a loved one
though no one
else knows
I was already dead.
| Scheme | XXABCD XXXAXX XXXXXB CXAAXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 10010 10010 100100 1110 1101 11101 11001010 011101 011010 1011 0100111 11101 010010 1111 0101 011 1101 111010 001 1011 111 11 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 401 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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