Analysis of Death is not a shadow



Death is not a shadow, it is a black hole
and you are not a life
you are a star
around you orbit multitudes
and around them orbit satellites
whose movements can be measured to the meter
on distant shores a cosmos away
And when the blackness envelopes you
and your orbs are flung into the dark
it is not one death but countless
rippling through the boundless fabric of space
to be mourned for eternity.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKL
Poetic Form
Metre 1110111011 011101 1101 0111010 00111010 11011101010 110101001 01010101 011110101 11111110 10010101011 11110100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 402
Words 77
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 324
Words per stanza (avg) 76

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my coworker passed quite suddenly

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Written on January 28, 2024

Submitted by lbj137 on January 28, 2024

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