Analysis of The Dead Sing
Torrents of hate
Help create paintings of death
Even the gods can’t undo
Destruction of this magnitude
Everything is left shattered
After the storm
Dead men tell no tales but
Some certainly sing
If none are around to hear
Nothing can bring back what’s lost, but
Ghostly ballads of nostalgia help to remember
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIGJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Acrostic |
| Metre | 1011 1011011 1001101 0101110 101110 1001 111111 11001 1110111 10111011 1010101011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 311 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 252 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
About this poem
It was mainly a writing exercise to challenge myself to see if I could make a sensible poem from an acronym alone, which I had fun doing. But the poem is a bit deeper than that which is why I like it.
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Written on August 19, 2022
Submitted by Deshinitai on March 28, 2023
Modified on April 15, 2023
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