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
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Submitted on August 03, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABB XXCC XXDD
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 245
Words 48
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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