Analysis of You Might As Well Live
Death is a headache that remains embedded
And a graveyard that leaves some to dread it.
Discrimination will always be a factor,
For hatred and bigotry will flee no faster.
Fraud occurs at the top-most position like presidents.
We bear that tradition for it lives within our essence.
Laws aren't always helpful when executed.
Officials are often baleful and never prosecuted.
Democracy is far from flawless and
The world is cemented with mucus lawless.
The rich glamour in novelty;the poor gutter in poverty.
Money liberates the guiltiest and WAR is the filthiest.
Medicine, a form of short-term cure,
For the body and soul will never pure.
Diseases spread like feral fire.
The living soul will brittle and expire.
Tragedy - a division of living.
Misery - a component of existing.
Death is like a doorbell, for He will be visiting.
So you might as well live.
Scheme | AXBBXXXAXX XACCBXDDDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101010 001111111 0010111010 110010011110 1011011010110 111010111011010 1101101100 01011010010100 0100111100 01101011010 0110011100100 1010101101 100011111 1010011101 010111010 0101110001 1000010110 10000101010 111011111100 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 838 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 343 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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