Analysis of time
constant, unchanging flow of time,
all that it gives, it takes away
our path written in magic ink
disappears as fast as it meets the page
then what is left, but what we give,
and stream carries forward in time
our love or damage that we taint
the stream of our children’s life
| Scheme | AXXX XAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010111 11111101 101100101 011111101 11111111 01101001 101110111 01110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 280 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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