Analysis of TIME TO DIE
There is a time to live
And there's a time to die,
But which is it now?
Fearing the worst
You lock yourself inside,
Refusing to go outside.
But what if death comes
From without your own home,
For reasons unexpected?
There is a time to panic
And a time to know fear,
For you, that is now!
There is a time to live
But you are too afraid,
So you let life slip by.
There's a time to die
You see death everywhere,
Waiting to claim you.
You sense the reaper lurking
In every shadow,
Outside and in.
Is death calling
Or is it imagination?
There's a time to live!
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | Abc xdd xxx xxc Axb bxx exx exa xxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 010111 11111 1001 110101 0101111 11111 101111 110010 1101110 001111 11111 110111 111101 111111 10111 11110 10111 1101010 01001 1100 1110 1110010 10111 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 603 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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There is a time to live And there's a time to die, But which is it now?
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Written on June 07, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on June 11, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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