Analysis of REQUIEM
I measure every grief and swallow every poison my body craves,
I claw on the pieces of my skin leaving scars,
Damp as the red stains the sleeves of my shirt.
It burns and I bask in the space of broken dreams,
I smile with white lies on the remains of the naivety in amusement,
Reaching out into the emptiness with both my hands.
I long, I am longing even as tears pool o my eyes, and my throat hurts,
Wandering stars glides above me,twinkling like the rhymes of the old,
Traversing gently into the depth of the world.
They seem old, a timeless travel of the earth,
I wonder why mother, why does it hurt to live?
I wonder if my soul feels my weight as an easier size?
I wonder how the years on my heart has piled,
And why does time keep at length my smile,
In contrast to relief would I go on aching still? Without a balm to sooth the patience gone long.
The moon a waxing cresent, enlightened through a century of existence,
And I despair in the grief of want, the stream murmurs in a silent flow,
I am enraptured and fascinated; the night a corpse like as the moon rises in the sky.
The leafy greens drenched in the November rain,
Bend down and before the light is a shadowed form,
The mist hangs heavy with the earth's sigh,
I shall be more silent and cold than tonight.
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Metre | 1101001010100101101 111010111101 1101101111 110110011101 1111110011010010 1010101001111 111110101111110111 10011011101101 010100101101 11101010101 110110111111 110111111111001 11010111111 011111111 010101111110101011101011 010101010101001010 010100111011000101 1101001000101110110001 01011000101 110010110101 011101011 11111001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,279 |
Words | 274 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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