Analysis of To Live!
Trent Naylor 1979 (North Dakota)
To Live is to be loved
To Love is to be hated
To Hate is to be feared
To Fear is to be dead
To Die is to be freed
To be Free is to LIVE
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 1111110 111111 111111 111111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 135 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Written on December 13, 2021
Submitted by tanrebel2011 on December 14, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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