Analysis of Deception
Deception
Old age comes in many ways,
as new winds blow
across a dark past.
Lifeless limbs stretch out
with callused palms
Fingers snarled in days work,
passé to needed touch,
from old brittle bones
creaked in a pendulum swing in time.
While darkened nails give way
to peeled flesh and old cracks.
Once stroked skin,
tender to feel,
withered in life's moment.
Now bent backs hunched in age,
until day's end resting upon a death.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010 1110101 1111 01011 10111 111 1010011 11101 11101 100100101 110111 111011 111 1011 100110 111101 0111100101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 414 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 4, 2, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on July 05, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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