Analysis of Father Time
The call came in the dark,
The station got interrupted,
But was it by mistake,
My mind wondered with a question mark,
Not important thoughts conducted,
But the time of the ring I couldn't shake,
Very rarely was I disturbed this late
I picked up with hesitation,
Never did i think it would lead to any cancellation,
Words weren’t forth coming out on the other end,
The wailing I could not apprehend,
Calls to come home and say goodbye,
A funeral uniform waiting to buy.
Lying there so frail,
The medicines forming a wonderful cocktail,
Wondering how he had such a hold,
Remembering as a child feeling so scared and cold,
Negative thoughts disappear,
Being replaced by fear,
Hoping for miracles for one more day, week or year.
Fate turned the egg timer upside down,
More time to get used to the new world,
More time for more games,
Getting use to not having him around,
Fighting against the fires and flames.
Scheme | AXBAXBX CCDDEE FFGGHHH XXIXI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (28%) |
Metre | 011001 0101010 111101 111010101 10101010 1011011101 1010110111 1111010 10111111110010 11110110101 01011101 1111011 0100101011 10111 01001001001 100111101 0100101101101 100101 10111 1011001111111 110110111 111111011 11111 1011110101 100101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 912 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 7, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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