Analysis of Life's Questions
When I leave this life, what void remains yearning,
To be filled by compassion and friendship burning?
Is there a difference in someone forlorn and lonely,
Or have I reproached harmony and peace; them only?
What soul may seek to dock at my side for safe refuge?
Would one desire my company of grand joy in deluge?
Where does pride forsake, or gain of others begin?
Is it in me, esteeming others greater than I? Less is sin!
What baggage of attitudes do I carry, that they remain?
Is it grumbling, envy or anger bringing so much pain?
Have I grown fond of entertaining such mentality?
Would you salute my presence, or exit my personality?
What answers to these life's questions I ponder?
Is it I, visible in fleshly lust, my worth abased? I wonder.
I exist to please self, void of humility, filled with pride,
Does each day begin and end upon me only to abide?
There is an answer! It is Christ alive in me that I cherish,
Yielded to Him crucified, that joy and love, may nourish
An individual's pleasant nature and image for all to see
A friend sought by all those yearning for one like me
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEBB FFGG HHBB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111110110 111101001010 1101000101010 111110001110 1111111111110 110101100111010 111011111001 11011101011111 11011011101101 111001011010111 1111101010100 110111011010100 11011110110 111100011111110 101111110100111 111010101110101 1111011101011110 1011101101110 1010010100101111 011111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,092 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Written on October 16, 1997
Submitted by dothens on October 11, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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