Analysis of Death Looks so Pretty



Time falls back to twelve
Punishing one with yet another beautiful dream
Yet it is one that ends in death
Where the body floats in an abyss of darkness
The mind at peace that all the worlds stress is gone
With no more feeling of pain that capsized their whole existence
Like a ship sinking into the unknown and the captain coming to amends that this is where the ship will go down
A sense that all troubles in life are over and were pointless in a life with the same end
The beauty that is within a dark place of mystery which stands still for eternity
Filled with memories of the past relived as if it just happened
Maybe there is peace in the end
Or maybe chaos invokes in us
Taken through a whole journey to find the absoluteness of nothing
Where reality is not one with logic but what defies it  
In certain times the idea seems like a proposal you cannot turn down
Because in your darkest moments anything seems better
Which is why when the eight o’clock alarm rings death looks so pretty


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Poetic Form
Metre 11111 1001110101001 11111101 101010101110 01111101111 11110111111010 1011001001001010101111101111 0111100111000100011011 0101101011110011110100 1110010101111110 10111001 110100101 1010110110100110 11011111011011 0101001011001011011 0101101010110 111101101111110
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 995
Words 189
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 47
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 803
Words per stanza (avg) 188

About this poem

It is a poem about the uncertainty of death but the calmness that comes with it.

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Submitted by hampthom8 on March 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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