Analysis of Life
Life is pain
Falls as rain
Ticks as clock
With great deals of mental block
Causes tears
Still I have to bear
Infinite pleasure
There is no device to measure
Difficult to go up against
Too hard to understand
Very complex to forget
But endless time to regret
| Scheme | AABB XXCC XXDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 111 111 1111101 101 11111 10010 11101110 10011101 11101 1010101 1101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 245 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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