Analysis of Helpless Death
My love one, My love one,
Thy have tears thy shed and prayers thy beg,
But nothing can bring your lost soul back,
All thy see left of you is the outline you once filled,
And your hollow shadow that lurks beside thy own flesh,
My love one, My love one,
Memories thy struggle to hold are bieng lost within,
Thy have nothing left of you,
Except for the items you once placed against your pale white skin,
My love one, My love one,
Your heart is like a doves graceful soar,
Your lips are like a song that I once heard,
And your eyes that use to shed the tears that fell like a diamond.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 111110111 110111111 111111101111 011011101111 111111 1001101111101 1110111 011010111011111 111111 111101101 1111011111 011111101111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 569 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on July 28, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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