Analysis of Signs Of Life
When did pretense begin, when did truth fade?
Life is not rehearsal nor masquerade.
What have you been dreaming, what is your plan?
Trite routines continue since you began.
Where is it your going, where have you been?
The pathways you travel aimlessly spin.
How are your emotions, how do you feel?
There are no expressions that you reveal.
Who do you rely on, who earns respect?
Solitude seems your way to self protect.
Did you just stop thinking, did your mind close?
Perhaps you feel safer to simply doze.
Why don't you face your fears, why are you snide?
Contempt and ridicule always deride.
Are there some signs of life, are there heart beats?
Pulsations indicate rhythmic repeats.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFGHHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011111 111010101 1111101111 1010101101 1111101111 011101001 1110101111 1110101101 1110111101 101111101 1111101111 0111101101 1111111111 01010101 1111111111 1101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 670 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 542 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on January 13, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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