Analysis of Nihilism
Live on whims.
swim to swim.
Meaning is a shackle.
The key is your sin.
Power is a delusion.
You write a Constitution,
it cannot hold.
The bludgeon you strike-
only dents a dune-
of a desert which gulps your strife
as a boon.
Mortal is a flower;
in love he blooms.
He shrivels with age.
By void: consumed
| Scheme | X X X X A A X X B X B X X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys |
| Metre | 111 111 101010 01111 1010010 110010 1101 01011 10101 10101111 101 101010 0111 1111 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 341 |
| Words | 94 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 15 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 15 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
About this poem
This poem describes the bliss of the belief in nothing, the insignificance of meticulous thought and the utter beauty in knowing death's certainty which makes life glow brighter.
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