Analysis of Sleep, Close Your Eyes, Pretend to Die
-sleep, close your eyes;
-and, pretend to die...
-many strange dramas
-of life get off the bumpas
-through your feigned
-temporary sleep of death
-sleep, close your eyes;
-and, pretend to die..
-waiting in the spirit
-hearing the faint
-voices of pretenders
-in the heart's little vision
-to descern those who care
-to serve out the friends of love
-from those who share treachery
-only as a bargain of your cake
-appearance of a man in the face
-often is not the starture of the heart
-sleep, close your eyes;
-and, pretend to die...
-you will know the few
-who truly loves you
-you will wonder at the large crowd
-who only care to see your corpse
-fareweather friends
-not better than grave diggers
-sleep, close your eyes;
-and, when you finally dies;
-leaving behind a measure
-at the doors of your graveyard
-the few sharing the loss
-with tears of pains
-the unexpected multitude
-not minding your many good turns
-in a showers of accolades of jesters
-with funny crocordie tears..
-this is what it is, and truly is
-when you pretends to be dead!
-or even when you are finally gone!
By: Ofuonyebi 'Dinobi (C) March, 2014.
Scheme | AB ccxx AB xxdxxxxxxx AB eexxxd Aa xxxxxxdx xxx x |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (23%) Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 1111 00111 10110 1111010 111 100111 1111 00111 100010 1001 101010 0011010 11111 1110111 1111100 101010111 010101001 101101101 1111 00111 11101 11011 11101011 11011111 11 1101110 1111 0111001 1001010 101111 011001 1111 001010 11011011 0010110110 11011 111110101 1101111 1101111001 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,089 |
Words | 200 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 2, 10, 2, 6, 2, 8, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on April 21, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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