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.
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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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