Analysis of Lies Of Life
It’s okay to cry
To fall in love and die.
Full of agony and life,
Lies and cries of more denies.
But it’s okay to cry.
Don’t worry about when you die.
Life continues on,
And when we soon perish…
We won’t be lied to anymore.
Right?
| Scheme | AABCAADEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (50%) Tetractys (30%) |
| Metre | 1111 110101 1110001 1011101 11111 11001111 10101 011110 1111101 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 231 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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