Analysis of Time
The notion of time
a potion sublime
A bottomless pit
the physicists fit
Today or tomorrow
the future or past
As your arms wrap around it,
—your hands lose their grasp
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)
| Scheme | AA BB XX BX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011 01001 01001 01001 01101 01011 1111011 11111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 202 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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