Analysis of Deep Dungeons
Despite a life avoiding each pox,
We still end up as bones in a box.
Buried well down in forgotten lands,
That in time become hot desert sands.
Our remains will wash into seas of salt,
To descend through Earth's oceanic faults.
Destined to be in a volcano's tears,
Of flowing lava in a billion years.
To briefly be in the light of the Sun,
Before returning to the deep dungeons.
Scheme | AA BB XX XX XX |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 010101011 111111001 101100101 101011101 10011101111 101110101 1011000101 1101000101 1101001101 0101010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 384 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
The journey of human remains.
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