To Be Or Not
To be or not
Poe hated sleep; slices of death he penned
Thinking, consciousness, memories to lend
moments that link to make a reason for time
Letters; words; thoughts; rhymes to stall
like a nervous person talking to avoid a fall
dreading that quiet scream; a dark call
Sanctuary disrupted; overwhelming our deeds
joy, pain void; partial choices with one need
well maybe two; to be or not to be
Form changes with waves of entropy
to believe or not to believe
less to least to nothing...A to Z
Sighing; we look away.
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Submitted by blongfi520_1 on July 14, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X A AX BBB XXC CXC X |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 514 |
Words | 94 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
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