Analysis of To Be Mean



To Be Mean
To be Live in the Dying, –
The Process of Birth, –
Is essential, crying-
Ly say feeling Loss,

And in it Gain proclaim,
Fighting back, killing Self:
Every Purpose let aim
To fulfill Core of Delve!..

Core of growing Sense
Midst emotions to feel:
Is it common, that dense
Perpetration of Kill?

Is it “known”, that learned
So negligent Grasp, –
Of the Prophecy worn,
Of Nightmare realized?..

In Belief Being’s felt
Only breathing in Trust,
And pulsating in Melt-
Ing of Spirit of Dust,

And entrusting, to lift
Let’s all Losses between
Crushing Waves by the Rifts
That approve what that mean!..


Scheme ABXBX CXCX DXDX XXXX EFEF XAXA
Poetic Form Tetractys  (28%)
Metre 111 1110010 0111 101010 11101 001101 101101 1001011 101111 11101 101011 111011 111 11111 11001 101001 1110 001101 101001 01001 111011 001011 111001 101101 101111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 593
Words 107
Sentences 4
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 77
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on January 06, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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