Life Or Death
Up or down
forward or back
Polarity ends
in a panic attack
Start, stop
the stillness portends
The middle a wasteland
lost years of pretend
Before or after
in front or behind
Timing entraps
with the devil’s design
Salvation, damnation
souls to contend
To live or to die
—to start or to end
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 16, 2018
Modified on April 30, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XA BA XB XC XX BX XC XC X |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 339 |
Words | 57 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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