Analysis of The Sands of Time
To walk through the grainy sands of time without you.
To never see your face nor to hold your hand.
This would be my greatest pain.
No one to shade me from the red hot sun
which will one day incinerate my very being.
No one to carry me when my naked feet have been consumed
by the intense heat of the sand.
No one to slow my ever spiraling descent into
the depths of this never ending hourglass which we call time.
I would endure this with you, or agonizingly without you.
But I ask of you now to make this journey with me, together . . .
The shade that we share will encircle all
who surround us with the warmth of our love.
We will carry each other when all seems lost.
Together we will walk hand in hand through
the sands of time.
Scheme | ABCDEFBAGAHIJKAG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010111011 11011111111 1111101 1111110111 111101011010 111101111011101 10011101 11111101000101 01111010101111 1101111110000011 1111111111011010 0111110101 10111011101 11101101111 0101111011 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 718 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 572 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 147 |
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Submitted on May 03, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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