Analysis of The Gift
Entangled in this quantum shell
A mind with a story to tell
It all began with a carefree me
Adolescence rowing in serenity
A developing mind as it churned
Always altering for what it yearned
All the while dismissing the signs
Of cells in symbiotic declines
We watch this movie we call life
Balanced between harmony and strife
From dust into mind we spend
Then from mind to dust we end
We spend to end in this shell
And for what, who is assumed to tell?
What’s the purpose for this grift,
This ethereal journey we call a gift.
Scheme | AA BBCCDD EEFFAA CX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001101 01101011 11011011 0101000100 001001111 11001111 10101001 11001001 11110111 100110001 1101111 1111111 1111011 011110111 0010111 10100101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 515 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 6, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
Recognize that life is a gift for us to enjoy…. Lose the stress and realize we are all on a similar journey. The journey of the fleeting mind
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Written on October 27, 2010
Submitted by Michaelmatalon on September 06, 2021
Modified on April 26, 2023
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