Analysis of What
Statements made are like graves
They are of a defining nature
although tombstones engraved shall turn to sand,
sentenced to a beautiful beach where juries of souls indulging freedom go on their off days to rot away
such as prisoners do.
Judgment passed lies on the grass
of bloodless houses
where a man and another man
bound by their hands
are shot on a lawn.
Humanity counts time
as life passes us
while a woman who lives
gets passed by a bus.
Children of the earth look into skies
fully knowing far back in their minds
that they are loving, one day they will die
Scheme | X XXXX XXXXX XAXA XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 111001010 11011111 101010011101101010111111101 111001 1011101 11010 10100101 1111 11101 010011 11101 101011 11101 101011011 101011011 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 548 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 5, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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