Death 2



I cannot help but stop and look at unassuming sentences.
Are you upset by how modest they are?
Does it tear you apart to see the sentences so retiring?

The modification that's really tragic,
Above all others is the decease.
Now sad is just the thing,
To get me wondering if the decease is tragical.

I saw the the big going of my generation destroyed,
How I mourned the disappearance.
Now large-scale is just the thing,
To get me wondering if the disappearance is bigger.

Why would you think the fatality is thin?
the fatality is the most fat deadliness of all.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the fatality,
Gently it goes - the fattish, the productive, the dumpy.

How happy is the scorching cremation!
Does the cremation make you shiver?
does it?

The surface that's really peaceful,
Above all others is the end.
An end is calm. an end is serene,
an end is halcyon, however.
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Submitted by BrokenCanvas on December 31, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXA XXAB XXAC XBDD XCX BXXC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 858
Words 159
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4

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