Analysis of Quiet Understandings



What is life without death?

Among the breadth of the meadows,

The reaper does sing.

The moon shall ring with light

So gently cast among the ground.

On white marbled floor,

Pour thine handprint, a ring of soot.

The quiet of mind,

To end would be too kind.

But then what, to only sit among the ripples of water whilst the rain doth pour.

To drown without a crown,

Surrounded by life that hath passed by.

Tendrils of tattered cloak pass as mist through the night,
The eyes of the watcher know only too well of death.

The smallest of kisses could set free the spirit so capsulated in dark.
For what is life without death?


Scheme A X X B X C X D D C X X BA XA
Poetic Form
Metre 111011 0101101 01011 011111 11010101 11101 1110111 01011 111111 11111010101011010111 110101 010111111 11101111101 0110101101111 0101101110101101 1111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 630
Words 143
Sentences 10
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 8

About this poem

This poem is a small journey through the Reaper's eyes as they watch life and learn that there isn't all bad things to a purpose of death.

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Written on October 17, 2022

Submitted on October 17, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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